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On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 [email protected] wrote: > > > When I finally did go back to my desk to work we turned on a radio that > > all of us could hear from our cube farm and tried to resume normal > > operations while keeping up to date. > > > > >From a network operations perspective, anyone who has not heard William > > LeFebvre's "CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis" has missed out. It talks about > > how the company that hosts cnn.com handled the crises and how it affected > > them from a network perspective. I've been unable to locate any decent > > transcripts/recordings of this talk, but I heard it at LISA 2001. > > Absolutely amazing presentation if you haven't seen it or heard it. > > The company that "hosted" CNN demonstrated that for all the claims of their > connectivity, it was not really there. If I recall correctly, CNN came up when a certain company > from MA company-ized CNN. The news coverage on Sep 11th was unprecedented, I dont believe there is any similar incident in which the whole of the world (not just a region or nation) has been focused on watching the news as an event unfolds. So to be fair (I assume) CNN hadnt asked for a service that could handle that particular load, if they had then they probably would have not been knocked off the air. And now we're a year on, how many news agencies have invested in a service that can carry 1 million streams or however many they got, I doubt any so if we have another Sep 11th type event dont expect anything to be different in the unicast world.. Steve
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