How to wash your servers (handling extremes of weather as a WISP)#

Oli Stockman (Fram Broadband Ltd/NGA Connect Ltd/Superhero Broadband)

• Why: Outside the PM's core areas, but this is a pure physical-infrastructure survival story: running a network when your office and primary POP are under four feet of floodwater. The lessons about physical vulnerability of head-end sites generalize to any DC or POP operator thinking about site risk.
• What: A long-form talk on operating an outdoor-heavy WISP through wind, snow, heat and cold, centred on the October 2023 Storm Babet floods — how the network was kept running with the primary POP flooded, and the lessons learned (from abstract only).
• How: First-person operational narrative — what failed, what was improvised, and what was changed afterwards.
• Where applicable: Very org- and climate-specific (UK WISP, single-site POP, river flooding), so the specifics do not transfer directly. The transferable part is the thought exercise: what does your critical-site failure plan look like when the site itself is the outage?