[33631] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Solarmax effects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Jan 18 12:45:45 2001
Date: 18 Jan 2001 09:43:02 -0800
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Thu, 18 January 2001, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> The primary expected effect of "solarmax" flare activity is that Sean
> Donelan will have to buy a new keyboard, because he'll wear out his
> old one.
Solor activity has some affect on the electrical grid and on satellites.
However, the folks operating the layer 0 and layer 1 facilities usually
do their jobs well enough it rarely has any noticable affect on the upper
layers. The most noticible affect for most network operators is they
get some extra static or sparkles on their CNN monitor in the NOC.
