Internet Not Perfect
Posted on February 27, 2008 By: Mike, VoIP Facts: The Blog email author
Filed Under Blogs, Commentary
Some strange things have been happening to the Internet lately.
Five cable cuts in a two week period bring voice and data communications to a crawl in the Middle East and south Asia. Internet theorist cry conspiracy while industry experts say it happens.
Pakistan says it will have none of that neutrality stuff on its net, and proceeded to block YouTube because of an anti-Islamic video clip. Unfortunately, one network in Pakistan announced to the rest of the world’s routers that it was the best path available to get to YouTube, denying access to most of the worlds Internet users to the site. Ooops!
YouTube removed the offending clip so that the Pakistanis could get back to enjoying their zany clips.
Software giant Microsoft is also having their problems, announcing a glitch in Windows Live log in services. People worldwide that were not already logged in were unable to access their hotmail, IM, calendars, and other Windows Live services for most of the day yesterday. MS won’t say what the problem was, but insists it has nothing to do with their brand new Windows Server 2008.
All this just goes to show that the Internet is not perfect, and is vulnerable to things that happen, malicious or not. But what isn’t?
About a fifth of the population of Florida went without power as an accident in a substation in Miami triggered a blackout reaching up and down the peninsula as far north as Daytona and Tampa.
No 99.999% uptime there either!
I guess the only thing that’s really dependable any more is the POTS. (Ha! Just wait till hurricane season)
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