[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Internet is hefty

[Stephen Quatrano]

The issue with conferencing services may not be the Internet at all.  I suspect it’s a problem on the “edge” and with data center resources.  After all, the conference is really an APPLICATION hosted ultimately by a bunch of SERVERS.  Yep, although it is “elastic”, it does scale linearly, and we call it a “cloud” in fact, there are real servers.  And those hosted servers can slow down, fall behind and ultimately fail to deliver a service to endpoints.  Also, the size of the pipe between the data center hosting those servers and the Internet itself is another limit and point of failure.

SQ

> On Mar 19, 2020, at 12:38 PM, George Gamota <ggamota at stma-llc.com> wrote:
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> Internet seems to be holding up OK but many of the “conference call” services are crashing.
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> From: LCTG <lctg-bounces+ggamota=stma-llc.com at lists.toku.us> On Behalf Of jjrudy1 at comcast.net
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:52 AM
> To: lexington at groups.io; Lex Computer Group <LCTG at lists.toku.us>
> Subject: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Internet is hefty
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> A number of folks have asked whether the internet can handle the surge in volume seen during the last week or two.  Consensus appears to be maybe/probably.  Here are a few recent articles
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> https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/uptime/will-coronavirus-break-internet-highly-unlikely-says-cloudflare <https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/uptime/will-coronavirus-break-internet-highly-unlikely-says-cloudflare>
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-broadband-internet-work-from-home.html?auth=login-facebook <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-broadband-internet-work-from-home.html?auth=login-facebook>
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> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/the-internet-was-built-to-withstand-a-nuclear-bomb-it-will <https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/the-internet-was-built-to-withstand-a-nuclear-bomb-it-will>
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> https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/tech/internet-infrastructure-coronavirus/index.html <https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/tech/internet-infrastructure-coronavirus/index.html>
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> The bottom line in my view is that the experts are not sure, but think it can.   And of course this is somewhat geography-dependent
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> On Monday I tried to get onto the Met Opera to watch Carmen and could not.  THEIR server was apparently flooded.  Later on it was fine.
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> John
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> John Rudy
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