24 Sep
2001
24 Sep
'01
3:02 p.m.
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Bob Bownes wrote:
But there was a point in time when taking out a certain parking garage in Va could have caused us a very great deal of difficulty. But I'd say we are past that, for the most part.
Are we? When 25 Broadway failed, approximately 1% of the global Internet routing table also disappeared. Which I would guess qualifies it as a "major" hub. Verizon still has 100,000 lines out of service, and only now begun to restore service to "small" businesses. A couple of years ago a fiber cut in Ohio disrupted about 20% of the Internet routing table.