Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

Mon Sep 16 18:21:17 UTC 2002

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 alex at yuriev.com wrote:

> 
> > When I finally did go back to my desk to work we turned on a radio that
> > all of us could hear from our cube farm and tried to resume normal
> > operations while keeping up to date.
> > 
> > >From a network operations perspective, anyone who has not heard William
> > LeFebvre's "CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis" has missed out. It talks about
> > how the company that hosts cnn.com handled the crises and how it affected
> > them from a network perspective. I've been unable to locate any decent
> > transcripts/recordings of this talk, but I heard it at LISA 2001.
> > Absolutely amazing presentation if you haven't seen it or heard it.
> 
> The company that "hosted" CNN demonstrated that for all the claims of their
> connectivity, it was not really there. If I recall correctly, CNN came up when a certain company
> from MA company-ized CNN.

The news coverage on Sep 11th was unprecedented, I dont believe there is any
similar incident in which the whole of the world (not just a region or
nation) has been focused on watching the news as an event unfolds.

So to be fair (I assume) CNN hadnt asked for a service that could handle that
particular load, if they had then they probably would have not been knocked off
the air.

And now we're a year on, how many news agencies have invested in a service that
can carry 1 million streams or however many they got, I doubt any so if we have
another Sep 11th type event dont expect anything to be different in the unicast
world..

Steve