29 February 2012

"All Your Eggs in One Basket" Isn't a Good Idea, Either

One of the two major phone companies serving Anchorage just dropped the east half of town, losing phones, cell coverage, internet, etc. A severed fiber-optic cable is apparently to blame.

7 comments:

Guffaw in AZ said...

AH! modern technology!

joated said...

ONE cable? Me thinks they need to redesign their layout. In some cases, duplicity is a good thing.

Old NFO said...

THAT is why I still like POTS... :-)

Wildly Calm said...

ONE cable - the number itself is enough to condemn the leadership and/or the engineering department of that company...

With one possible exception: If this happened at a time one was doing major work on some cable systems - but even in that case one would want two cables for mutual backup!

Someone in the area should make a well-formulated public statement inviting the company to explain itself...

Wildly Calm said...

Oh, and, Joated: While "duplicity" is a marginally useable word here, I would favour the word "redundancy", without specifying how many connective cables should be used in everyday operation...

(Somehow, I like the number three, by the way - for everyday use, but then I don't have access to all info that would be pertinent to such a decision.)

joated said...

Knew "dublicity" wasn't quite what I wanted (except as a backhander to management that would allow/require only one cable), but kept running into a blank when trying for "redundancy." Senior moment.

Wildly Calm said...

Joated: It happens. The problem is when they become a weekly, then a daily occurrence...

About words, I sometimes use an online thesaurus (via google's search).