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Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan () renesys com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:54:31 -0400
At 09:50 PM 4/17/2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, David W. Hankins wrote: > In a www.washingtonpost.com article: > > http://tinyurl.com/s2jpz > > It is said: > > President Bush is expected to approve soon a national pandemic > influenza response plan that identifies more than 300 specific > tasks for federal agencies, including [some stuff and] expanding > Internet capacity to handle what would probably be a flood of > people working from their home computers. > > That's not a lot of detail, and the article only cites www.pandemicflu.gov > as a reference. They don't appear to have published any detailed plan > that Pres. Bush is evidently about to sign there. What is published there > feels like background information, and is vaguer still. How about this idea... are your corporate VPN services (assuming there is one aside fromm 'ssh to the bastion host' of course) prepared to double/quadruple/more-uple their normal concurrent user counts? During the fallout of Katrina we observed this being a problem for some of the corporations in region :( I know that quite a few folks plan for 50% or less of their employees to be 'dialed in' :( If 100%, or some majority, how do the corp folks plan on supporting that? :(
Vendors like it because it's a revenue boost. It obviously requires build-aheadcapacity and maintenance of overload capacity that will likely sit idle for 99%
of it's life span. Who pays? [ ..hears ISP product managers scurrying to create "PriortyVPN" or "priority vpn" products as a result... heh -> implied trademark here] -M< -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operationshannigan () renesys com
Current thread:
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?, (continued)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Michael . Dillon (Apr 19)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 18)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Michael . Dillon (Apr 19)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? David W. Hankins (Apr 19)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Joseph S D Yao (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Jay Hennigan (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Joseph S D Yao (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? David W. Hankins (Apr 21)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Robert Boyle (Apr 17)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Martin Hannigan (Apr 17)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Apr 18)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 18)
- Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready? Michael . Dillon (Apr 18)