[55668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Feb 6 15:43:55 2003
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:43:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sigh, there are differences between tightly coupled networks, such as
the electric power grid and loosely couple networks like the Internet.
But there are also some similarities, such as electric grids use DC
interconnections to limit how far AC disturbances propagate; the
Internet uses AS interconnections to limit IGP disturbances from
propagating.
http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20686.html
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