[51781] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kris Foster)
Fri Sep 6 10:33:45 2002
From: "Kris Foster" <Kris.Foster@telus.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:26:46 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> What kind of implact on the global internet would we see
> should we observe
> nearly simultaneous detonation of 500 kilogramms of high
> explosives at N of the
> major known interconnect facilities?
Not knowing how much damage would result from 500kg of explosives..
What is the typical size of pipe a carrier would pull into an interconnect
facility, how many carriers, how much traffic? Now how much traffic would
shift to other facilities if one went down? How many would it take to
saturate the pipes? And at what point would congestion be bad enough to
render them useless?
At some point traffic will shift over to private interconnects either
through complete loss of peering in third party facilities, or through
manual intervention.
Kris
