Re: Fiber cut in SF area

The real problem is route redundancy.  This is what the original contract from DARPA to BBM, to create the Internet, was about!

s/DARPA/ARPA/; s/BBM/BBN/; s/Internet/ARPAnet/. BBN won the contract to build the first four IMPs. Theory and research about it is older, look at: http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Bib/REPORT/PhD/proposal-01.html But you are right, redundancy is the issue, cost is the factor. Jorge.