On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 alex@yuriev.com wrote:
When I finally did go back to my desk to work we turned on a radio that all of us could hear from our cube farm and tried to resume normal operations while keeping up to date.
From a network operations perspective, anyone who has not heard William LeFebvre's "CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis" has missed out. It talks about how the company that hosts cnn.com handled the crises and how it affected them from a network perspective. I've been unable to locate any decent transcripts/recordings of this talk, but I heard it at LISA 2001. Absolutely amazing presentation if you haven't seen it or heard it.
The company that "hosted" CNN demonstrated that for all the claims of their connectivity, it was not really there. If I recall correctly, CNN came up when a certain company from MA company-ized CNN.
The news coverage on Sep 11th was unprecedented, I dont believe there is any similar incident in which the whole of the world (not just a region or nation) has been focused on watching the news as an event unfolds. So to be fair (I assume) CNN hadnt asked for a service that could handle that particular load, if they had then they probably would have not been knocked off the air. And now we're a year on, how many news agencies have invested in a service that can carry 1 million streams or however many they got, I doubt any so if we have another Sep 11th type event dont expect anything to be different in the unicast world.. Steve