Now that I have your attention. My intent with the DLR discussion was to find out how we can estimate, predict, simulate how robust the Internet really is; not debate vendor certifications. Several telephone companies, working together, simulated what would happen to the public telephone network if five bridges across the Mississippi river carrying fiber optic lines were destroyed. The result was the public telephone network was unaffected, according to the participating telephone companies. I believe this was considered the worst scenario at the time. Has anyone, or any group of ISPs done a similar analysis for data and Internet traffic?
Hi Randy:
the nas is giving it a go, calling for participation in one of their classic committees. not being a great fan of engineering by committee, i hit delete.
You've confused committees. The National Academy committee is studying how the Internet dealt with 9/11. The idea is to take a real-life example (probably our first) of a disaster where the Internet was both (a) infrastructure and (b) a [minor] victim of the disaster. There's been lots of theorizing about how the Internet would behave, and a number of postmortems (mostly from perspectives that could be accused of bias) about how the Internet did on 9/11. To be clear, the committee is not doing engineering and is seeking the widest possible input -- especially as the NAS specializes in producing reports that see to reflect all perspectives. Thus the committee is not out to solve Sean's posed question (though if someone had an answer to Sean's question, it would be useful grist to the committee). Thanks! Craig Partridge (who may end up chairing said committee, pending NAS review for bias issues)
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