Analysis Of The Telstra Outage

The article is taken from Vertel, a website on telecommunication and networking that discusses the famous Telstra outage occurred in May 2016. We chose this article because it shows the malfunctioning of the biggest network in Australia. It was the seventh outage of the year. The major purpose of the article is to show the extensive impact that an outage can make. Also, it is intended to prescribe some precautions to protect the business from outage. The author says that Telstra was already using the path redundancy and media redundancy but they were not proved to be enough. We learn from the article that “true network diversity” is required and one must work with the people who understand the critical