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Re: East Coast outage?
From: Jason Slagle <raistlin () tacorp net>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:34:20 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
I don't recall any any incidents during which similar numbers of people lost all internet access, or all telephone access, for as long as the power has been out -- and it's difficult to imagine a scenario in which that could happen (other than another widespread power failure). Reliability is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
If the net as a whole had to run at only 10-15% excess capacity or suffer EQUIPMENT damage to the components, it would have happened MANY times already. See ms blaster. Jason -- Jason Slagle - CCNP - CCDP /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign . X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail .
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- Re: East Coast outage?, (continued)
- Re: East Coast outage? Petri Helenius (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? hackerwacker (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? hackerwacker (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? alex (Aug 17)
- Re: East Coast outage? Vadim Antonov (Aug 18)
- Off-topic followups [Was: Re: East Coast outage?] Rafi Sadowsky (Aug 18)
- Re: East Coast outage? Jeff Aitken (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? alex (Aug 15)
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- Re: East Coast outage? Joe Abley (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? Jason Slagle (Aug 15)
- RE: East Coast outage? Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 15)
- RE: East Coast outage? David Schwartz (Aug 15)
- Re: East Coast outage? alex (Aug 15)
- RE: East Coast outage? Randy Bush (Aug 15)
- RE: East Coast outage? Pete Kruckenberg (Aug 15)