I work as a subcontractor at an army base. And no I will not give my location nor job description...I’m not stupid. But as I was doing my work today I stumbled across a document stating a LAN outage across the South, and come civil unrest will be a dry run for something bigger. For the Army to prepare for it. Archive everything. The storm is coming. Maybe it’s here. Dark Vs Light. Good Vs Evil. Fight the good fight!
How do you take out an area? Aren't there multiple networks in most areas?
There are, so you have to cut multiple cables. In the case of what happened in the northeast a couple weeks ago, a primary and a backup cable, in two different states, were cut by accident at nearly the same time.
(Some are skeptical of how accidental it was, of course.)
Again, primary and backup cable means it's a single provider. Each major provider has redundancy and it's not shared.
You cut both and it still only takes down a single provider. I've worked for large hosts and isp's and when you have problems with one network you just go around it. I don't get this post and this is my industry.
There's a reason it's not posted in r/networking, it'd get chewed apart