I’m going to take a bold step and you may call me cruel but the recent disaster in Haiti is a perfect storm as they say. The example by which to examin our networks and say, what would we do? Excuse me finance department but maybe now you understand what a disaster is and how possible it is. A big part of the recovery will be finding Haiti under the rubble. The documents of birth, the entire economy was lost. The government was on what little paper they had. Lets ask the question, where is the backup? was there an offsite copy? Was there even an onsite backup? How will they restore it? can it be restored?
What could be done to ensure the continuity of the government? the restoration of the government? Who knows who actually lived in Haiti? 3 million people who are they? Who is missing?
Clearly Haiti will be rebuilt but how should it be done? Wireless? Wired? both?
Before us is an interesting problem that thousands have given their lives to.
I hope they call technology experts for this rebuild since it will not be just a country or city, Haiti was a civilization, with a deep history.
What have we learned? We learned that disaster can and will strike.
It will do horrible things. We can plan and prepare.
When the dust has cleared and the deceased have been morned. The opportunity to build a new nation and new network for the future will exsist.
How will we build it? Prepare it for the long haul?
