[89997] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Tue Apr 18 00:55:37 2006
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:54:31 -0400
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0604180148150.16719@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 09:50 PM 4/17/2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, David W. Hankins wrote:
>
> > In a www.washingtonpost.com article:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/s2jpz
> >
> > It is said:
> >
> > President Bush is expected to approve soon a national pandemic
> > influenza response plan that identifies more than 300 specific
> > tasks for federal agencies, including [some stuff and] expanding
> > Internet capacity to handle what would probably be a flood of
> > people working from their home computers.
> >
> > That's not a lot of detail, and the article only cites www.pandemicflu.gov
> > as a reference. They don't appear to have published any detailed plan
> > that Pres. Bush is evidently about to sign there. What is published there
> > feels like background information, and is vaguer still.
>
>How about this idea... are your corporate VPN services (assuming there is
>one aside fromm 'ssh to the bastion host' of course) prepared to
>double/quadruple/more-uple their normal concurrent user counts? During the
>fallout of Katrina we observed this being a problem for some of the
>corporations in region :( I know that quite a few folks plan for 50% or
>less of their employees to be 'dialed in' :( If 100%, or some majority,
>how do the corp folks plan on supporting that? :(
Vendors like it because it's a revenue boost. It obviously requires build-ahead
capacity and maintenance of overload capacity that will likely sit
idle for 99%
of it's life span. Who pays?
[ ..hears ISP product managers scurrying to create "PriortyVPN" or
"priority vpn" products as a result... heh -> implied trademark here]
-M<
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Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574
Member of Technical Staff Network Operations
hannigan@renesys.com
