OSS Sandpit – Hidden Single Points of Failure: Routes That Look Diverse but Aren't Ask any network planner whether their important sites are protected and the answer is usually yes: there are two routes, an “east” and a “west”, so if one is cut the other carries the traffic. On the map, the two lines are nicely apart. Then a digger goes through a trench on…
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Every NOC has lived this moment. The alarm list lights up, dozens of red rows appear at once, and the first question from the duty manager isn't "what broke?" It's "who's affected, and how bad is it?" This article provides a walkthrough of the Assurance module of our Personal OSS Sandpit Project, which sets out to answer that question. The Assurance module refers to the "Real-time"…
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Across this series, we've looked at fragmented AI investment, the rush to launch AI projects, the AI dependence on OSS and BSS, and the need for combined planning as more autonomous systems begin to interact. We've discussed coherent planning a lot throughout the series, which raises two obvious questions: If coherence matters this much, does everything need to be centrally controlled? How could - and should…
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