[Outages-discussion] Unsignificant outages (was:NYC - PINCH)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Jackson" <jjackson at aninetworks.net>
> To: outages-discussion at outages.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 3:57:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] Unsignificant outages (was:NYC - PINCH)

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Outages-discussion [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jim Popovitch
> 
>> In the same spirit, can some more guidance be issued to reduce the
>> noise of non-significant outages.   Is a single fiber cut really that
>> much of an impact in 2016, or is it really just a normal and expected event that
>> routing was designed to deal with?
> 
> The routing protocols might be able to deal with a single fiber cut by design
> but I've noticed that networks are rarely designed topology and capacity wise
> for a failure of that sort.
> 
> Example - Zayo had a fiber cut in between DFW and LA in 2014.  Sure traffic
> routed around it but the capacity of the links wasn't enough to handle the
> extra traffic during the outage which then caused issues across their entire
> network which would cause issues with their customers.
> 
> 
> So while the technology is more than able to go around damage human planners and
> most importantly costs keep it from being as robust and redundant as possible.

IOW: The Internet treats censorship as damage, but the actual damage it might
not be to handle because that's due to cheap design, not attacks.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                  Baylink                       jra at baylink.com
Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates       http://www.bcp38.info          2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA      BCP38: Ask For It By Name!           +1 727 647 1274