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yep you right i worked on those systems TAT-8 TAT-9 SEEMEEWEE . FLAG & SO ON & it has built in backups & rerouting
Originally posted by adjensen
Originally posted by JoeP2247
reply to post by WP4YT
It is predicting some kind of a tidal wave that will hit the west coast of the US and a "black-out" of the internet - possibly related to the fiber optic cables in the ocean.
The Internet is designed not to "black out", ever -- it was originally architected by the DoD to keep running even during a nuclear war. A country that has a single point of entry can isolate itself but cutting that connection, and a person, company or ISP can similarly be cut off, as they have a single point of contact, but the Internet, in general, would continue operating just fine if some fibre optic cables were cut.
Here is an old map of UUNet's backbone -- if the cable between the US and Japan, for example, was severed, traffic between those points would automatically be routed through the London -> Hong Kong -> Osaka -> Tokyo link. Things would slow down a bit, but it would still work.
Originally posted by JoeP2247
Today is the last day for the webbot predictions - looks like they really messed up unless something dramatic happens today. This would certainly not be the first time they were totally wrong.
There's a sucker born every minute.
- David Hannum, on P.T. Barnum's side show hoaxes