East Coast outage?
Jason Slagle
raistlin at tacorp.net
Sat Aug 16 00:34:20 UTC 2003
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote:
> I don't recall any any incidents during which similar numbers of people
> lost all internet access, or all telephone access, for as long as the
> power has been out -- and it's difficult to imagine a scenario in which
> that could happen (other than another widespread power failure).
>
> Reliability is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
If the net as a whole had to run at only 10-15% excess capacity or suffer
EQUIPMENT damage to the components, it would have happened MANY times
already. See ms blaster.
Jason
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