27 Nov
2002
27 Nov
'02
8:28 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote:
I think this is old news. There was a cover story back in 1996 time frame on Mae_east. We have to ask how likely is this with many of the top backbones doing private peering over local loops, how much damage would occur if an exchange point where hit?
It depends which exchange point is hit. There are a couple of buildings in London which if hit would have a disasterous affect on UK and European peering. What about fibre landing stations? Are these diverse enough? Again, most of the transatlantic fibre (for the UK) appears to come in near Lands End. Rich