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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [email protected] 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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