Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

Wed Sep 11 16:00:40 UTC 2002

On fredag, sep 6, 2002, at 21:57 Europe/Stockholm, Tim Thorne wrote:

> OK, what if 60 Hudson, 25 Broadway, LinX and AmsIX were all put out of
> commission?

To some extent - nothing for the above...if design right. The major 
networks should have designed their networks to route around this. If 
not - they have done a poor job. For others, the exchange points should 
be a way merely to off-load their transit connections.

However - there is a point in what you are saying, from a national 
point of view - the exchange points should independently take care of 
traffic in the case a nation is isolated. But I don't think any of the 
above are designed for that in the first place...

- kurtis -