Interesting...this is the first I'm hearing of a Bay Area network outage. Then again, I think that's kind of the point! I was always taught that packet switchin

Interesting...this is the first I'm hearing of a Bay Area network outage. Then again, I think that's kind of the point! I was always taught that packet switching was designed such that, if Chicago got nuked, network traffic could still get from New York to L.A. I don't recall anything about the packet switched network preventing Chicago from being wiped off the map. In other words, electrical grid: vulnerable! A branch drops on a power line in Ohio and the entire East Coast goes black...not good. The internet: not so vulnerable! Fiber optic cable gets cut in Silicon Valley and the CEO of a tech reporting site complains but I don't even notice from my apartment in NYC.