A few years ago I read of a company that went the whole nine yards to
insure net access: dual front ends connecting to two ISPs over two
separate cables. They lost the whole thing when a backhoe cut the
single underground conduit that the redundant cables were in.
Oops!
Mark Jarvis
Dan Lund wrote:
That's the lovely part of redundancy :)
It'd be slow, but existent. Then again, circa 1997 the entire eastern
seaboard was disconnected from the western united states for a (very
small) period of time due to a cable break. That made me feel real
good about the whole packet detouring thing... or at least the
architects of said network's idea of detouring...
--Dan Lund
"This day will be a great day in our history - the date of a new
revolution, quite as much needed as the old one."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's diary after the hanging of John Smith
in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia) December 2, 1859
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:02 PM, S Kreimeyer <
skreimey@gmail.com> wrote:
I met one of the civil engineers whom helped build Denver international
airport. He said that they had to work around a fiber optic cable, and
that if it were severed the damages were estimated somewhere around
$3M/sec. I don't think there's much appreciation for how vulnerable net
infrastructure is.
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 16:29 -0700, Jordan Aberle wrote:
Pwned.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75,
slices through cable while scavenging for copper.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access
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Keith Smith
2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International) : if my people, who are
called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my
face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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