Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

Tue Sep 26 00:10:41 UTC 2017

You're assuming the WISP isn't providing infrastructure to critical facilities. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog at vaxination.ca> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 6:55:41 PM 
Subject: Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of 

On 2017-09-24 17:13, Sean Donelan wrote: 

> I'm not sure what clearances they are waiting for. If they are already in 
> Puerto Rico, self-sufficient, and respect curfews and other emergency 
> responders, they should be able to start local restoration and recovery 
> activities. 

Priority is to restore communications to emergency responders, restore 
power to hospitals and other critical infrastructure). So workers that 
clear roads, remove dangling electrical wires would prioritize fixing of 
that critical infrastructure. That road you need cleared to get to your 
fixed wireless antenna will wait. 

Similarly, I get the impression that all cargo capacity into the island 
is still controlled to prioritize essentials. So those spare circuit 
board you need to fix a router have to wait. 

Also, with residences overwhelmingly without power, fixing the "normal" 
ISP business won't do much when nobody can use it. It is best to focus 
on wi-fi in central locations such as shelters, and cellular for first 
responders and others. 

There are good reasons local governments work out disaster plans because 
they need to identify in advance what gets priority after a disaster. 