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This culture lets all hold hands and say everyone gets a 'achievement' and no one's to blame drives me nuts.
You raise a good point, but outages/failures could all be down to a single component incorrectly soldered on a circuit board somewhere in the brains of the system - can we blame the robotic arm that soldered it? or the people who deal with the aftermath?
Not saying it's a component failure, I have no idea, but I know that everyone at telecom will be putting in 120% to get it right.
I know the Telecom staff are dedicated and will be working long and hard, but for your example of the circuit board, if someone designed the network to have a single point of failure of that chip/board then that is a failure right there in that designers job. Carrier grade networks are the most reliable deployed networks, they have all this wonderful fault resilient technology invented specifically to get to that magic five nines dialtone reliability.
I don't know what the problem is either but 3 days outages and multiple failures with single point of failures don't have the ring of carrier grade world class networks to me. I don't know how to build or maintain networks like this, but is this what you simply have to expect from a new 3G network? People say Telstra's 850Mhz MCDMA network in Australia had the same teething problems.
The question that still stumps me is if Telecom did buy such a world class network how come they didn't use IP to the cell sites, so they could reroute and load balance RNC controllers instead of using older emulated? cirtcuit switched connections. That still puzzles me.
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