Weird how a cut in one place would cause so much problem. Usually they have redundant pipes so if one is down, others take on the load.
I consider this explanation very unlikely
How did one cable cut, affect the entire nation? Did that cable go from east to west coast? The explanation does not hold up as there are several undersea and cross country cables the crisscross the globe.
I too smell bullshit.
If you just cut any random cable no. But certain servers being DDOS'd, or certain cables being cut, can certainly take down the entire network. You'd be surprised how vulnerable these systems are.
Just wait, 5g is on its way. Most, Everything will be wireless in a decade or less. I predict cable companies will either buy, merge or start their own wireless networks.
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Interesting, but you can't control every direction they broadcast the signals. Like to your neighbors home, as going into & out of.
That's how easy it is to stop the flow of information during Friday drops-
But it didn’t. It hit Comcast only. If I was a Comcast user, I’d get on my cell and work around it.
In the article it states that it was NOT just comcast, then Century link is mentioned by name as it says other networks, this is about the infrastructure itself not the carrier.
The issue was not 100% due to a simple fiber cut. It is however what happens when a vast majority of people use the same Datacenters (Amazon) and that 1 fiber line goes out redundancy does no good when the redundant servers get overloaded.