Here’s what I am having a hard time wrapping my head around. In big digital infrastructure redundancy is the name of the game. If one system goes down another one picks up the slack. Data always has multiple routes to travel. That being said there should be no single point of failure. Why then, did one location going down from a bomb cripple half of the state?
Yes, but the whole reason the NSA taps into data centers is the bandwidth. The internet will route around the problem, but the point of data collection is hampered. Whatever data was flowing though Nashville is now going elsewhere, and the ability to intercept the data is lost.
You have presented a distinction without a difference. Issues to what extent? Perhaps issues to such an extent such that the word "crippled" might be apt in describing it? Just questions.
No but every company has a disaster recovery plan. Downtime = loss of income and customers. A telecom company like att has a very big focus on no downtime
Here’s what I am having a hard time wrapping my head around. In big digital infrastructure redundancy is the name of the game. If one system goes down another one picks up the slack. Data always has multiple routes to travel. That being said there should be no single point of failure. Why then, did one location going down from a bomb cripple half of the state?
Yes, but the whole reason the NSA taps into data centers is the bandwidth. The internet will route around the problem, but the point of data collection is hampered. Whatever data was flowing though Nashville is now going elsewhere, and the ability to intercept the data is lost.
Maybe crippling half a state is a feature?
It wasnt crippled it had issues. Systems arent perfect.
You have presented a distinction without a difference. Issues to what extent? Perhaps issues to such an extent such that the word "crippled" might be apt in describing it? Just questions.
No but every company has a disaster recovery plan. Downtime = loss of income and customers. A telecom company like att has a very big focus on no downtime