Vodacom's mobile data centre on wheels

[Kevin Lancaster]

Vodacom mobile data centre on wheels

Vodacom has developed and deployed a mobile recovery solution, which is essentially a mobile data centre on wheels.

 

[CuppaJoe]

Wonder if they are modelling it after AT&T's setup?

This is from 2008, but they already had it in 2004.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/on-the-ground-with-atandts-network-disaster-recovery-team/

If Vodacom is doing this, it means they really think Eskom will stumble in the future.

 

[rrh]

Hewlett-Packard (locally) had a similar set-up - loaded with their computers - for computer disaster recovery.

And that was in the mid-1980's

 

[ToxicBunny]

Wonder if they are modelling it after AT&T's setup?

This is from 2008, but they already had it in 2004.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/29/on-the-ground-with-atandts-network-disaster-recovery-team/

If Vodacom is doing this, it means they really think Eskom will stumble in the future.

No, it means up until now they were not adequately mitigating the risk of a total MTX failure....

I'm actually surprised that this is only being rolled out now, I just assumed a company like Vodacom would have worst case scenario risk mitigation plans in place for many many years.

 

[furpile]

No, it means up until now they were not adequately mitigating the risk of a total MTX failure....

I'm actually surprised that this is only being rolled out now, I just assumed a company like Vodacom would have worst case scenario risk mitigation plans in place for many many years.

Maybe MTN gave them a scare

 

[Electron1]

Yay, no more dropped calls!

 

[SteveO]

No, it means up until now they were not adequately mitigating the risk of a total MTX failure....

Generally operators of Vodacom/MTN's size would have multiple "MTX" locations. Each MTX location should have internal redundancies as well as power and transmission redundancies. Each of these locations can be setup to handle at least 50% of the affected traffic.

So these new mobile centres are a bit of over kill. That said, Vodacom has had some critical failures in the past which have brought down their operations nationally. So clearly there is a point of failure which could see a similar event occur.

 

[kianm]

Yay, no more dropped calls!

Hmmmm, i don't know if this is meant to help with dropped calls. More like disaster recovery and only useful in the worst case scenario. So continue enjoying the dropped calls so long