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Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows
- From: Stephen J. Wilcox
- Date: Wed Nov 27 08:40:13 2002
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 variable@ednet.co.uk wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote:
>
> > I think this is old news. There was a cover story back in 1996 time
> > frame on Mae_east. We have to ask how likely is this with many of
> > the top backbones doing private peering over local loops, how much
> > damage would occur if an exchange point where hit?
well recent issues have suggested an exchange can cause short term issues at
least, for a longer outage i dont think we have an example.. in the short term
flap dampening causes unreachability and circuits hitting capacity prior to a
reroute by the noc are big problems but these may be solvable (or worsened) if
an outage were to persist..
> It depends which exchange point is hit. There are a couple of buildings
> in London which if hit would have a disasterous affect on UK and European
> peering.
Europe would reroute, UK would suffer.. but this comes back to the regional
effect
> What about fibre landing stations? Are these diverse enough? Again, most
> of the transatlantic fibre (for the UK) appears to come in near Lands End.
Hmm, I know of multiple landings including lands end... so it is diverse, but
the sheer bandwidth down one cable is very large, an outage would be noticable.
Steve
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