"md" == Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> writes:
Perhaps there is a lesson in redundancy here.
[...]
The other was that they did not have alternate types of power
source, i.e. they did not have generators on site but expected
that 3 different utility power sources was adequate redundancy.
This reminds me of a passage from Bruce Sterling's _The Hacker Crackdown_.
Parked outside the back is a power-generation truck. The generator
strikes me as rather anomalous. Don't they already have their own
generators in this eight-story monster? Then the suspicion strikes
me that NYNEX must have heard of the September 17 AT&T
power-outage which crashed New York City. Belt-and-suspenders,
this generator. Very telco.
michael