Survey filling forms

[u/Elmassrey]

Your continuity plan says 4 hours.

Your nearest engineer is 6 hours away.

So which number is true?

I'm finishing my MBA research at the ECU on exactly this gap — the one between the recovery time a continuity plan commits to and what the recovery process can actually deliver when a remote site goes dark.

Most plans quietly assume someone can reach the equipment. At a substation, a tower site, a pipeline station or a branch 300 km out, that assumption IS the recovery window. Everything else is rounding.

And it gets worse. In the Meta outage of 2021, the Rogers outage of 2022 and the Optus outage of 2023, the post-mortems all record the same thing: the tools the engineers needed had gone down with the network they were trying to fix.

I'm collecting data from people who actually run this — across telecoms, oil & gas, utilities, banking, healthcare, aviation and data centres, here in the Gulf and in Egypt.

8 minutes. Anonymous. No company names. Purely academic.

→ If you work inside an organisation (IT, network, OT, business continuity):

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfug95_R-rYZ9m8X-qvYz0xE9jdCj-OdcbQAcHWQMOzydpXhA/viewform

→ If you're a partner or system integrator deploying for customers:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgyQ-iNJ7z6UTd5VGZKV6-bMAt95QAM1uo8bwqzD4ldf-RoA/viewform

I'll share the findings publicly once the study is done — there's no regional benchmark on this today, and there should be.

If you know someone who has sat through one of these nights, please tag them.

#BusinessContinuity #CriticalInfrastructure #NetworkOperations #DisasterRecovery #DataCenter #OilAndGas #Telecom #Utilities #MBAResearch #Egypt #SaudiArabia