It’s amazing to me how brittle the Internet still is. There’s just not enough cable in the ground carrying Internet traffic to provide acceptable levels of redundancy for a “carrier class” network. Yesterday, four OC-192 cables in Ohio got sliced, delaying traffic between the East and West coast.
It’s amazing to me how brittle the Internet still is. There’s just not enough cable in the ground carrying Internet traffic to provide acceptable levels of redundancy for a “carrier class” network. Yesterday, four OC-192 cables in Ohio got sliced, delaying traffic between the East and West coast.
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