Re:Severed fibre cables disrupted internet access in eastern...
by jlgaddis on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:40PM
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> Apparently their immediate response was just to reroute everything through the cables on the other side of the country that were still top, ...
I'd be pretty surprised to learn that was a "manual" decision made by humans.
I would expect -- especially in Google's case -- that the re-routing happened automatically (and nearly instantaneously, ~50ms) and the NOC engineers were simply "notified" about it.
I'd be pretty surprised to learn that was a "manual" decision made by humans.
I would expect -- especially in Google's case -- that the re-routing happened automatically (and nearly instantaneously, ~50ms) and the NOC engineers were simply "notified" about it.