Simulated disaster exercise? Re: PAIX

Kurt Erik Lindqvist kurtis at kurtis.pp.se
Mon Nov 18 20:30:53 UTC 2002


> In the 1990's the MAEs and Gigaswitches would give us an unscheduled
> failure of a major exchange point on a regular basis, which let us
> demostrate our disaster recovery capabilities.  With the improved
> reliability, i.e. the PAIXes haven't had a catastrophic failure, we
> haven't had as many opportunities to demonstrate how well we can handle
> a disaster at those locations.
>
> Without creating an actual disaster, what if all the providers turned 
> off
> their BGP sessions with other providers at a PAIX (or Equinix or LINX 
> or
> where ever), both through the shared switch and private point-to-point
> links, for an hour.  More than likely no one would notice, but then
> we would have some hard data.  Individually providers have tested 
> parts of
> their own network, but I haven't heard of any coordinated efforts to 
> test
> recovery across all the service providers in a particular location.
>
This was more or less done in Sweden two weeks ago. In Stockholm there 
are two sites located in Government own locations. We migrated one of 
these sites to a new location, and then shut down "one of the halves" 
for around 8 hours.

Best regards,

- kurtis -




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