October 14, 2005

Disasters May Have Wide Ripple Effects

By VINCENT KIERNAN

When planning its response to a disaster affecting the campus network, a college should not limit itself to local happenings. A disaster on the other side of the country could interfere with campus computing under some circumstances.

For example, a college could lose much of its connection to the Internet because of a faraway problem caused by a hurricane or terrorist attack.

Officials of Internet2, the high-speed-networking consortium, were worried that just such a problem

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