Saturday, October 4, 2014

Analysis: Does the internet have a back-up plan?

Analysis: Does the internet have a back-up plan?   At first it looks like the result of a spending spree at Go Outdoors. There's a table piled high with sleeping bags, tents, ration packs, dental kits, steel toecap boots, deckchairs, UHF/VHF radios, Savlon, water purifying tablets and even a bog-in-a-bag, but behind all of this is nothing short of a global telecoms network on wheels.Seven trailers parked-up in a huge warehouse – some on wheels, others designed for 747 cargo holds – together create a network node capable of handling 15 Terabits per second. Read more >