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To: axial who wrote (33490)	5/4/2010 2:54:34 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

On a related note, "It is unclear if civilization can recover from the failure of a technology that has been so rapidly adopted without a backup plan." -- Stephen Hardy, publisher of Lightwave magazine, quoting a passage from a recent Reuters article (immediately below) relating to a report from the IEEE and EastWest think tank about the growing dependence society has placed on international optical submarine cables, in this five minute "First Take" video: "May '10 First Take" at tinyurl.com . -- Undersea telecoms cables face growing risks: report William Maclean \| Reuters \| Apr 20, 2010 Investors should urgently diversify the web of undersea cables that serve as the world's information and banking arteries to address soaring demand and piracy concerns and reduce the risk of catastrophic outages. Cont.: reuters.com -- FAC: I was unable, within the 15 minutes of edit time allowed here, to locate the actual joint IEEE- EastWest think tank report; if anyone who is more capable than I here, in this regard, can locate it, please post it. Here's an item from Cryptogon that makes reference to it, along with the Reuters piece above: IEEE: Build Backup Routes for Undersea Communications Infrastructure “Before we have to learn the hard way” Cryptogon.com \| April 21st, 2010 cryptogon.com [ one reader (tochigi) stated in the readers' comments section of this piece something interesting: "as system complexity grows linearly, systemic risk grows exponentially. risk is further compounded by dependence…"; I wonder: is this comment necessarily true in the context of providing failover capabilities? ] ------