Avoiding Outages with Resilience
why would WM have avoided the latest Optus outage in Australia?
World Mobile's network infrastructure appears to be designed with a focus on resilience and decentralization, which could inherently provide robustness against outages like the one experienced by Optus in Australia. Here are some key points that illustrate how World Mobile's approach could help avoid such outages:
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Resilient Infrastructure: World Mobile Chain plans to handle network failures or outages with specific procedures and protocols in place to manage such situations, although the exact details of these are not specified in the documents【18†source】.
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Fallback Consensus Algorithms: The network includes fallback consensus algorithms that prevent network stalls even if there's a flaw in the primary consensus mechanism. This means that if a typical network failure occurs, like those seen in other blockchains leading to network stalls, World Mobile's network is designed to keep operating without interruption【19†source】.
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Decentralized Control: World Mobile emphasizes the importance of having a decentralized and citizen-controlled network layer. This would presumably mean that the network does not rely on single points of failure, which are common in more centralized networks. In the case of Optus, if a central point was the cause of the outage, such a decentralized system might have mitigated the impact【20†source】.
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Network Densification: There is also mention of an approach to densify the network in a focused manner, which implies an intention to strengthen network robustness and capacity. This approach aims to complement, not overbuild, existing mobile network operators, which could mean that World Mobile's infrastructure is intended to enhance the existing networks rather than replace them, possibly providing a buffer against large-scale outages【21†source】.
These points suggest that World Mobile is building a network that is less susceptible to the kind of centralized failures that can cause widespread outages. However, the specifics of how they would handle such an outage scenario, as experienced by Optus in Australia, are not detailed in the provided documents.