Mike,
Is your interest events like the recent semi-non-event with H1N1,
where for contagation management, workforce labor and school age
children were not compulsorily aggregated, or morbidity and mortality
effects on network operator labor for an event such as the dispersal
of a weaponized biological?
Restated, is your interest bursty behavior on the edge (houses of
workers at big box employers X,Y,Z), rather than at the core (big box
employer X,Y,Z), or how do network operators plan continuity as the
skilled labor available count goes to zero?
We sort of had the latter exercise over the past three weeks in Haiti,
where fuel, food, and families assumptions about operational readiness
were tested, and only just kept above zero.
Eric
On 2/2/10 10:59 PM, ha...@ualberta.ca wrote:
Hello everyone,
My name is Mike Haska, and I am a graduate student at the University of
Alberta. I am conducting research into Internet capacity issues during
pandemic events. In order to analyze certain aspects of this topic, I
need to get in touch with representatives from the major Internet
service providers in Canada - some of whom, I am hoping, are members of
this distribution.
Specifically, I am looking to get in touch with individuals who are
familiar with the structure of their network and with any pandemic
contingency plans that are in place within their organization.
If you think you may be able to assist, or if you know of anyone who
could, please contact me at (haska at ualberta.ca) and I will provide
further information on all aspects of this study.
To put your mind at ease - I'm not fishing around for sensitive
information or your root passwords; I'm looking for an overview of your
policies and your responses to hypothetical scenarios. Your
confidentiality is assured and you are welcome to preview all the
questions to be asked before you commit to participating in any way.
I feel this topic has important implications to network operators in
Canada, so any support you can offer to this research project is greatly
appreciated.
Best regards,
-Mike
