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Every time this topic comes up. I am just completely awed by the idea that this is how most of our communication work. It seems so fragile and vulnerable to sab
by vinhboy 14y ago
Every time this topic comes up. I am just completely awed by the idea that this is how most of our communication work. It seems so fragile and vulnerable to sabotage.
- GFischer 14y agoMy country, Uruguay (look at South America below Brazil) took a very shortsighted approach to fiber links, and as a result we depend on a single cable running from Argentina. It was cut down by a work crew once, thus leaving the entire country without Internet (well, with a so-slow-it-was-unusable Internet).
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoI'm sure there are several ways to re-route communications, so if one/several links go down, we just use a different route, with added latency of course.
- dmoy 14y agoThis happened to Armenia, only it wasn't a work crew that cut the cable. It was some random old Georgian woman digging around: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-c...