[Outages-discussion] Internet "backbone"

[Patrick W. Gilmore]

On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Joseph Jackson wrote:

> I think we should disabuse the notion that there is a Internet "backbone".  With all the interconnection of networks and POPs that services Internet connectivity is it correct to still consider that the internet has a backbone?  This isn't the NSFnet anymore with a few long haul links between sites.  When someone says Internet Backbone what are they trying to describe since such a physical infrastructure doesn't really exist anymore.
> 
> Just a thought I had...

+1

But then, many of us decided that .. well, a very long time ago.

How shall we disabuse people of the notion?

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TTFN,
patrick