[83854] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Katrina could inundate New Orleans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Mon Aug 29 04:10:14 2005
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:09:15 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>
Cc: Dave Stewart <dbs@dbscom.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050828232239.D42842@sprockets.gibbard.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:10:54AM -0700, Steve Gibbard wrote:
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> And then, as others have pointed out, there's the question of whether=20
> other places are dependent on infrastructure in New Orleans. It's not a=
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> place I've ever seen prominently figure on any ISP's nation-wide network=
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> maps. But, there are plenty of those I haven't seen, and I don't know=20
> about the underlying infrastructure in the area. Do circuits from Housto=
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> to Florida pass through New Orleans? Hopefully, anybody relying too=20
> heavily on circuits that pass through the area has adequate capacity on=
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> backup paths that go elsewhere.
Yes, most of them in fact. In some cases Atlanta too, but primarily New=20
Orleans' only claim to Internet fame is being a repeater node between=20
Houston and Florida heading west. If things get really bad (gear under=20
water) you could expect to see a potentially significant loss of capacity=
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=66rom Florida heading west, or worse still Atlanta to Houston (if we're=20
talking about the greater area and not just New Orleans proper), which=20
could easily be a problem for some people. Probably the best way to bypass=
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it would be having another way out of Atlanta heading North West, which a=
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lot of people do. Of course if you don't (for example:=20
http://www.cogentco.com/htdocs/map.php), the only way you're going west is=
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through NYC/Boston. Expect a bad day in terms of latency if that happens.=
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:)
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