Telcos form group to mitigate risks from natural disasters
Telcos form group to mitigate risks from natural disasters
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines -- Telecommunications companies have formed a consortium of regional carriers to avert service disruption in case of natural disasters such as last year’s Taiwan earthquake which affected Internet and communications connections.
Called Pacific Partners, the alliance is composed of 14 major Asia Pacific carriers including the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT).
All members of the alliance have signed a memorandum of agreement to ensure quick restoration of services in their networks during major cable system failures, according to PLDT.
The other carriers are AT&T of the US, China Telecom, CAT Telecom of Thailand, Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan, KDDI of Japan, Korea Telecom, INDOSAT of Indonesia, REACH of Hong Kong and Australia, Singapore Telecom, Telecom New Zealand, Telekom Malaysia, VNPT of Vietnam and VSNL International of India and Canada.
In December 2006, an earthquake originated from Taiwan damaging nine international submarine cable systems. Existing restoration plans proved insufficient, causing major difficulties in the Asia-Pacific region, including the slowing down of the Internet.
Top officials of major carriers met a few months later to discuss the impact of the Taiwan earthquake and came up with measures to avert a similar crisis.
One of the things agreed upon was to pursue a strategic cooperation initiative that would pool all available resources at their disposal – including manpower and facilities -- to deal with multiple cable failures that may occur in the future.
Under the terms of the MOU, the group will develop “Disaster Recovery Principles and Mechanism (DRP/M)” to ensure each party’s quick return to business-as-usual operation.
The end-goal is to minimize the impact of international cable failures on the consumer and business customers of all 14 carriers.
A committee chaired by PLDT carrier marketing management head Genaro Sanchez was created in early 2007 to undertake this task.
The DRP/M is expected to be ready for implementation by early 2008.
By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines -- Telecommunications companies have formed a consortium of regional carriers to avert service disruption in case of natural disasters such as last year’s Taiwan earthquake which affected Internet and communications connections.
Called Pacific Partners, the alliance is composed of 14 major Asia Pacific carriers including the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT).
All members of the alliance have signed a memorandum of agreement to ensure quick restoration of services in their networks during major cable system failures, according to PLDT.
The other carriers are AT&T of the US, China Telecom, CAT Telecom of Thailand, Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan, KDDI of Japan, Korea Telecom, INDOSAT of Indonesia, REACH of Hong Kong and Australia, Singapore Telecom, Telecom New Zealand, Telekom Malaysia, VNPT of Vietnam and VSNL International of India and Canada.
In December 2006, an earthquake originated from Taiwan damaging nine international submarine cable systems. Existing restoration plans proved insufficient, causing major difficulties in the Asia-Pacific region, including the slowing down of the Internet.
Top officials of major carriers met a few months later to discuss the impact of the Taiwan earthquake and came up with measures to avert a similar crisis.
One of the things agreed upon was to pursue a strategic cooperation initiative that would pool all available resources at their disposal – including manpower and facilities -- to deal with multiple cable failures that may occur in the future.
Under the terms of the MOU, the group will develop “Disaster Recovery Principles and Mechanism (DRP/M)” to ensure each party’s quick return to business-as-usual operation.
The end-goal is to minimize the impact of international cable failures on the consumer and business customers of all 14 carriers.
A committee chaired by PLDT carrier marketing management head Genaro Sanchez was created in early 2007 to undertake this task.
The DRP/M is expected to be ready for implementation by early 2008.
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