[113425] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Sat Apr 11 14:33:21 2009
In-Reply-To: <20090411175020.1D0532B21F9@mx5.roble.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:30:54 -0500
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The real problem is route redundancy. =A0This is what the original contra=
ct
> from DARPA to BBM, to create the Internet, was about!
s/DARPA/ARPA/; s/BBM/BBN/; s/Internet/ARPAnet/.
BBN won the contract to build the first four IMPs.
Theory and research about it is older, look at:
http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Bib/REPORT/PhD/proposal-01.html
But you are right, redundancy is the issue, cost is the factor.
Jorge.
