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|  AMS-IX a key point of failure - becomes terrorist target
When a hub handles that much of the data for all of Europe then it becomes a high priority target for terrorists. A hit there could affect the economies of the EU significantly if successful. I wonder how well protected it is?
AMS-IX acts as the interconnect for over 280 ISPs Current traffic stats: »www.ams-ix.net/technical/stats/
Topology(4 separate sites in Amsterdam): »www.ams-ix.net/technical/topology.pdf
An example of the companies using the exchange:
»https://www.euro-ix.net/member/m/isp/cho···t=Search |
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wierdo
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Tulsa, OK | More correctly, it acts as an interconnect for over 280 ISPs. |
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BosstonesOwn
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Theres more interconnects my friend. Just because it is the busiest doesn't mean a terrorist attack knocks out the interweb and ecommerce in europe.
TCP protocol is pretty resilient to failures. Thats why the government invented it. With it becoming more expensive to buy into 3rd world countries I fully expect some one to start using africa as a major exchange soon. Followed by Spain And Iceland soon it's only logical now.
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TK Junk Mail
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| said by BosstonesOwn  :Theres more interconnects my friend. Just because it is the busiest doesn't mean a terrorist attack knocks out the interweb and ecommerce in europe. It won't "Knock Out" all e-commerce, but it would put a huge hurt on it for a significant period of time.
An example of companies using the exchange:
»https://www.euro-ix.net/member/m/isp/cho···t=Search |
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| said by TK Junk Mail :It won't "Knock Out" all e-commerce, but it would put a huge hurt on it for a significant period of time. It will, only if providers are as idiotic as they are here in the states about putting their eggs all in one (or two) baskets. I don't know how things are looking today, but as of a few years ago they by and large weren't being that short sighted.
Part of the point of a public peering fabric of that nature is to have many of them so that when one dies, it's not a big deal, unlike what happens when one of two or three private links between major backbone providers go out.
Back when we had that sort of architecture here, full on outages were much more rare. Granted, when one of the IXPs keeled over for whatever reason, latency went through the roof to most off-net destinations, but a complete breakage wasn't as likely.
I also think it's a mistake for AMS-IX to be that big anyway, but that's because I favor more decentralization of exchanges. IMO, just about every mid-size or larger metro in the US should have one, where the local ISPs exchange traffic with each other and the big outfits exchange traffic in that area. Nobody seems to want to expend the engineering effort to do that, though. |
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said by BosstonesOwn :TCP protocol is pretty resilient to failures. Thats why the government invented it. You mean thats why Al Gore invented it... 
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It won't do much damage , just introduces more lag , those exchanges are very well peered. If it was the Us , Japan or Brazilian peer exchanges I'd say yes we may have a problem. But there , no we don't.
We have many in Spain and the UK that can take up the slack , but it comes at a cost of adding latency and cost to the packets.
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karlmarx
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Gee, the 'terrorist' card from a right wing nut case. Who'd a thought! |
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jervin123
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But only when there are alternate routes, many ISPs have few alternate geographically diverse routes. |
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The relevance of this to the story is?
Have you considered a job in PR for GWB's government? Preaching the terrorist angle where possible could be quite profitable for you.
LINX, London Internet Exchange does over 210Gbps peak as an example. There are plenty of peering points in Europe, and those ISPs that might lose their peering have transit providers to take up their slack.
The internet is a decentralised network ya know. |
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mdrift
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The Government didn't invent TCP and Al Gore was on the steering committees whose chairmanship lead votes made sure the continued funding for major areas of the future Internet were born.
At any rate, from RFC675
»www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc675.txt
SPECIFICATION OF INTERNET TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM
December 1974 Version
1. INTRODUCTION
This document describes the functions to be performed by the
internetwork Transmission Control Program [TCP] and its interface to
programs or users that require its services. Several basic
assumptions are made about process to process communication and these
are listed here without further justification. The interested reader
is referred to [CEKA74, TOML74, BELS74, DALA74, SUNS74] for further
discussion.
The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of R.
Tomlinson (three way handshake and Initial Sequence Number
Selection), D. Belsnes, J. Burchfiel, M. Galland, R. Kahn, D. Lloyd,
W. Plummer, and J. Postel all of whose good ideas and counsel have
had a beneficial effect (we hope) on this protocol design. In the
early phases of the design work, R. Metcalfe, A. McKenzie, H.
Zimmerman, G. LeLann, and M. Elie were most helpful in explicating
the various issues to be resolved. Of course, we remain responsible
for the remaining errors and misstatements which no doubt lurk in the
nooks and crannies of the text. |
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