ANALYSIS & OPINION:BUSINESS CONTINUITY
UNCHARTED TERRITORY
A summary of the experience to date in dealing with the current Covid-19 pandemic, from a network design consultancy’s point of view
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s a society we're in uncharted territory with the uncertainty surrounding Covid-19, and the challenge for any company at this time is to ensure the
health and safety of its workforce and their families while maintaining business continuity and workflow. We are taking all measures possible to ensure
we continue to provide a first-class service to all our clients in the delivery and maintenance of telecommunication infrastructure that will facilitate remote working and incident responses, all while being under increased demand.
Network capacity With so many workers now being forced to work remotely, it puts extra demands on the network. Te reports from the operators look positive, with Siro, which operates a FTTH network covering 300,000 premises in Ireland, saying it has sufficient capacity for an increase in traffic. ‘Each 1G Siro service is capable of managing
400 times the average user speeds observed on the network to date, so while we do expect to see increases in traffic (like we saw during the snow event in March 2018) the Siro network is dimensioned to carry many multiples of the current data traffic,’ the company said in a statement.
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Flatening the curve As a company, we have been tracking Covid-19 in earnest since the beginning of February. One of the first steps we took was to activate our incident response team (IRT), which is a key mitigation measure in our business continuity plan. Tis team tracked Covid-19 as it spread across our European operations and began implementing incident response measures such as travel registers, employee communications, hygiene practices and restructuring of project teams set up to ensure team continuity in the event of an employee presenting with
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