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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1H-461XHCP -1&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2003&_rdoc=4&_fmt=summary&_orig=brows e&_srch=%23toc%235675%232003%23999799998%23346577!&_cdi=5675&_sort=d&_ docanchor=&wchp=dGLbVzb-lSzBA&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion= 0&_userid=10&md5=07d46c9a1f4d02e61db9a1aaff89514e --- "Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." - Mae West On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 03:06:30 -0500 (EST), Sean Donelan wrote: > >On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Irwin Lazar wrote: >>Thought this might be worth passing on: >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2514651.stm >><http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2514651.stm> > >Its difficult to tell what the authors have discovered since the >paper >won't be published for four months. From the press release I notice >some language which would indicate it may have the same issues other >Internet models have predicting the impact of physical disruptions. > >Q: What's the difference between airline traffic and highway traffic >during a snow storm in Chicago? > >A: A snowstorm in Chicago doesn't have much of an impact on highway >traffic through Dallas. But a snowstorm in Chicago does impact air >traffic in Dallas. > >Air traffic in the US is a tightly coupled system. Air traffic is >coordinated nationally, and passengers must make connections at fixed >points which are difficult to change. Its difficult to get on a >different >plane heading in the general direction of your destination. >Automotive >traffic is loosly coupled. Auto traffic is locally controlled and >cars >may be individually re-routed towards its destination at many >different >points. > >Which analogy is closer to what happens to the Internet? Air >traffic or >highway traffic? Or maybe Internet traffic is like Internet traffic.
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