[e-gold-list] Re: TGC Down?

[CyberFrontier Global Support]

> " Internet and phone services have been disrupted across much of Asia 
> after an earthquake damaged undersea cables, leaving one of the world's 
> most tech-savvy regions in a virtual blackout."
> http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/27/061227100430.q1satn81.html

Further to that, it wasn't that bad, actually. Asia was pretty much cut off 
from the rest of the World, but inside Asia everything worked just fine. In 
fact, connections from Malaysia to Hong Kong, Japan, even Korea, were faster 
than ever. The phone problems were mainly caused by people calling to and 
from Taiwan non-stop to find out about family and friends, and even there 
mainly affected providers who are using VOIP technologies.

It did nevertheless give me halt insofar that it reminded me just how 
vulnerable this whole internet thingy of ours is. If memory serves 
correctly, there are just eight main trunk lines carrying intercontinental 
data flow, five of which connect to the satellite network, and all of which 
interconnect at just half a dozen central nodes. Asia was very much cut off 
by only one the main trunk lines being damaged. Traffic floods routed past 
that spot via Australia and India respectively, apparently crashed 
everything there as well, forcing Australia to disconnect from Asia 
altogether for several hours. The US, more dependent on the Net than anyone, 
has four trunk lines of her own and is home to three of the six main nodes. 
Yet, something happening in the Far East, and say, Latin America, would 
reduce US connectivity to everywhere but Europe to a crawl.
Indeed, some Latin American nut case flipping a switch together with an 
accident in Asia and/or Europe, could effectively shut down crossborder 
commerce, leave foreign subsidaries, banks and jit manufacturing stranded, 
causing unrepairable damage to the world economy.
Is anybody working on contingency plans for something like that happening, 
or are people not aware of the danger of relying on such a fragile 
infrastructure for just about everything?

Cheers,
Robert.

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