[52134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Mon Sep 16 14:23:16 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:21:17 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10209161313280.5913-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 alex@yuriev.com wrote:
>
> > When I finally did go back to my desk to work we turned on a radio that
> > all of us could hear from our cube farm and tried to resume normal
> > operations while keeping up to date.
> >
> > >From a network operations perspective, anyone who has not heard William
> > LeFebvre's "CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis" has missed out. It talks about
> > how the company that hosts cnn.com handled the crises and how it affected
> > them from a network perspective. I've been unable to locate any decent
> > transcripts/recordings of this talk, but I heard it at LISA 2001.
> > Absolutely amazing presentation if you haven't seen it or heard it.
>
> The company that "hosted" CNN demonstrated that for all the claims of their
> connectivity, it was not really there. If I recall correctly, CNN came up when a certain company
> from MA company-ized CNN.
The news coverage on Sep 11th was unprecedented, I dont believe there is any
similar incident in which the whole of the world (not just a region or
nation) has been focused on watching the news as an event unfolds.
So to be fair (I assume) CNN hadnt asked for a service that could handle that
particular load, if they had then they probably would have not been knocked off
the air.
And now we're a year on, how many news agencies have invested in a service that
can carry 1 million streams or however many they got, I doubt any so if we have
another Sep 11th type event dont expect anything to be different in the unicast
world..
Steve
