16 Jul
2013
16 Jul
'13
12:35 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:05:26PM -0400, Lin Holcomb wrote:
way Brian, but if the big one(earth quake) hits SoCal
the whole 44net
cant talk to each other anymore. As UCSD is very close to one of the
major fault lines in SoCal I would say this is not an if but a when
situation.
Yes, sometime in the next 10,000 years the San Andreas and its contributory
faults are expected to knock us off the map. Doubt I'll be around. The
rising sea level is likely to get here long before that.
But with the tunnels, "the whole 44net cant talk to each other anymore" is
simply not true - that's the advantage of a mesh: its survivability.
I'm for more peering points but there are difficulties. As far as I know,
everyone else who is doing multiple peering points has independent connectivity
between those points - a fibre network they own, dedicated ATM circuits, etc.
I don't see us having that ever.
- Brian