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Dave Stepp

Dave Stepp

Dave Stepp is Associate Director / Managing Partner of Federal Connected Solutions at Verizon, overseeing wireless solutions architecture for U.S. federal, DoD, and national security agencies.

Sep 16, 2026

3:52
So in real world scenarios, how do hidden single points of failure really show up when primary and backup networks often rely and actually do rely on the same infrastructure? And we'll start with Dave on this one.
4:05
Sure thing.
4:07
I kind of look at this as kind of a three-part answer, right? I'll take, uh, I'll take one or two, then how about I'll send it over to Chris here.
4:12
But do we, so you think about, uh, you know, uh, when they're relying upon the same infrastructure, think about a physical transport layer, right? You know, dual carrier fiber feeds merging into a single trench, uh, like what we talked about.
4:23
And then you kind of the, they also have the logical control layer and then like a powered hardware infrastructure layer, right? So the logical control, logical control layer, think about like a, like a, the wholesale middle mile provider, right? Uh, A lot of these telco arrangements, they will utilize a same wholesaler in regards to the middle portion of the transport.
4:46
And if that goes down, I mean, there might be the conception of having redundancy, but really it's running through the same provider.
4:56
So I'll send it over to Chris and let you talk about maybe some power and hardware infrastructure where we could – you know, where, where we could see some, uh, you know, single points of failure show up there.
5:54
common assumption is that solutions like Wi-Fi can essentially serve as a backup, right? But where does that thinking fall short? And we'll go with Dave on this one.

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