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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon
At 12:44 PM -0400 2002/08/12, Sean Donelan wrote: Keep in mind that it was DARPA that funded the original research on what we now call the Internet. There are plenty of clueless morons in the building (the one with four sides and a spare), but there are also some exceptionally sharp people.Building a surviable network in such a small area, relatively speaking the Pentagon is small, is a much harder problem than diversity on a regional or even national network. Perhaps true for the unclassified systems. But then they're not really that critical to the real day-to-day operations. Moreover, where the plane struck is not the side where the majority of this kind of networking is done.http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0812/news-dod-08-12-02.asp "Among the problems DOD encountered Sept. 11 was a computing environment with many points of failure -- applications or databases that, if removed, could not be recovered and critical network links that, if down, could not be worked around. I worked there for about five years. I know where a lot of the unclassified networking was done, and I know where a fair amount of the classified processing was done. The classified areas were not in any danger from the airplane attack. -- Brad Knowles, <[email protected]> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)
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