Re: Katrina impact on US internet backbone -- analysis

[Todd Underwood <todd () renesys com>]

all,

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 02:09:50AM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/04/katrina_impact_on_us.html

not to put too fine a point on it, but this post appears, to me, to be
unmitigated (or poorly mitigated) crap.  many, many of the fiber paths
between atlanta and houston don't go v. close to new orleans.  most of
them appear to be functioning rather well.  the linked-to story
appears only to refer to Internet2, not exactly "the internet",
really. 

renesys will be releasing a report on the net impacts of this event
early-to-mid next week and it should have detail related to who was
out (mostly locally originated) and when and for how long. we've got
some good data from our routing data sources and some interesting data
contributed by other parties as well.

if anyone has information about broader net-effects of this outage
that you'd like to share, pls let me know or post to the list here.

t.

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todd underwood
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renesys - interdomain intelligence
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