On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Rod Beck wrote:
Well, gentlemen, you have to ask for the fiber maps and have them
placed in the contract as an exhibit.
Most of the large commercial banks are doing it. It's doable, but it
does require effort.
Uhm, did you bother to read the NDAI report? The Federal Reserve learned
several lessons. Fiber maps are not sufficient. If you are relying
just on fiber maps, you are going to learn the same lesson again and
again.
The FAA, Federal Reserve, SFTI and SMART are probably at the top as
far as trying to engineer their networks and maintain diversity
assurances. But even the Federal Reserve found the cost more than
it could afford. What commercial banks are doing is impressive,
but only in a "commercially reasonable" way. Some residual risk and
outages are always going to exist.
No matter what the salesman tells you, Murphy still lives.
