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If every cable was cut to the United States (and Canada and Mexico I guess) would we even notice a problem? Are enough servers located in the US that our Inter
by RandallBrown 14y ago
If every cable was cut to the United States (and Canada and Mexico I guess) would we even notice a problem?
Are enough servers located in the US that our Internet service, while certainly diminished, wouldn't be all that different?
Is there something about the design of the Internet that cutting all those connections would damage the ones internal to the United States?
- 001sky 14y agoThis came up during Hurricane Sandy. NYC is a point of entry for a large number of undersea Cables. Some of these are pretty important, and there was discussion about what would happen if the surge or debris were to take out a couple of them. “Given the duration and strength of this storm, you have to worry about the cables getting disrupted,” said an executive with a data center company who did not want to be named. He said problems with the cables is “ the kind of thing companies will keep close to the vest. If either AC-1 or AC-2 were to go out there would be major, major issues.” http://gigaom.com/cloud/superstorm-sandy-wreaks-havoc-on-internet-infrastructure/ http://gigaom.com/cloud/superstorm-sandy-wreaks-havoc-on-int... edit: citation added.
- jewel 14y agoYou can get a feel for this by running netstat -tn and then running a traceroute to each connection you currently have open. For example, my connection to news.ycombinator.com takes this path: Salt Lake City Denver Dallas Houston My connection to en.wikipedia.org takes the same first three hops and seems to end in a data center in Dallas.