[109612] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Tue Dec 2 17:11:18 2008
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:11:11 -0800
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <D338D1613B32624285BB321A5CF3DB250C827745D5@ginga.ai.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Deepak Jain wrote:
>> I bet the military or emergency services can establish a 10km fiber
>> stretch in a few hours. Replacing some telecom hw and set it up from
>> scratch would probably take weeks (I'm not talking about a single
>> router
>> here).
>>
>
> But we aren't talking about the military here, are we? We are talking about an ISP on an ISP forum.
>
Yes.... but in a disaster scenario where critical communication links
are down the military would respond and reestablish the links, if for
nothing else to re establish situational awareness for themselves.
