[60788] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Slagle)
Fri Aug 15 20:39:28 2003
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:34:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net>, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <049F7CBA-CF5F-11D7-83F8-00039312C852@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
> I don't recall any any incidents during which similar numbers of people
> lost all internet access, or all telephone access, for as long as the
> power has been out -- and it's difficult to imagine a scenario in which
> that could happen (other than another widespread power failure).
>
> Reliability is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
If the net as a whole had to run at only 10-15% excess capacity or suffer
EQUIPMENT damage to the components, it would have happened MANY times
already. See ms blaster.
Jason
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