As a major network operator, there are very occasionally thoughts that disturb your sleep. One such thought is that we don't want to appear on the front page of the Herald for the wrong reasons - and it gives us no joy to see fellow Telco providers there either.
It is an all-too-vivid reminder that constant vigilance is required and if we let our standards drop we could be next.
Kordia's history in broadcast transmission and transport has lead to an almost religious pursuit of excellence in building reliable networks, whether it be for traditional TV transmission, backhaul for other providers or our next generation IP and Ethernet services.
When we made the decision in 2007 to carry TV signals on our IP NGN rather than our traditional circuit based network, we carefully scrutinised the reliability implications that this placed on our network.
To put the severity of risk into context, if we have an outage longer than 20 seconds to Television distribution, the Beehive has to be informed. At that stage our IP network was 5-years-old with healthy reliability figures.
This move to carry TV caused us to look even more closely at our reliability design. Potential single points of failure were removed, duplication was added to every layer of the distribution and operations stacks and Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) based fault detection protocols were implemented.
The end result is something that we can transparently stand behind and say that we have an IP NGN built to world class reliability standards with not just two, but three routes across key paths.
But does this make us sleep any easier at night? Not really...
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