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To: axial who wrote (25779)3/11/2008 7:50:49 AM
From: axial  Read Replies (1) of 46821
 
Frank, one other thing: as we transition to all-IP, the gains are somewhat offset by the loss of former so-called 5 nines reliability. A damaged fibreoptic line may mean no phone, no email - nothing - for a large population.

As I understand it, the original ARPANET concept was that in the event of calamity, redundancy and parallelism would allow communication.

It follows that even more redundancy and parallelism increases the probability of throughput, no matter what some backhoe operator or ship's anchor does.

We're unlikely to regain the fabled reliability of the old system, with its backup blast-hardened microwave towers. But to a very large extent, we can substitute with fibre infrastructure that allows throughput in worst-case scenarios.

Jim
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