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Verizon adds cascading catastrophic failure to boost 5G confidence (not)
- Thursday | 27th June, 2019
We hate to sound like a broken record but when Verizon is accused of triggering a ‘cascading catastrophic failure’ the record needs one more spin. The result of said ‘cascading catastrophic failure’ was to bring large amounts of the internet to its knees. Described as a ‘small heart attack’ at the heart of the internet, the really concerning thing is that it was completely avoidable. Then a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) told Verizon that this was the best route, Verizon passed this on and of course everything fell over as large amounts of internet traffic had to squeeze down the equivalent of a small country lane. Large telecoms companies are investing huge sums in its success (not just the network technology).
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