Recently, a new
story about how a network switch located in a transformer booth floated in a rusty bucket appeared in the “Runet quote” - bash.org.ru. People enjoyed Web 2.0 sitting at their laptops with WiFi, and did not know that connectivity provides this very switch.
Something similar happened in the USA, where a homeless tramp, unwittingly, broke the work of the experimental
Internet2 network. The fire, which caused the interruption, was caused by a non-extinguished cigarette, which the homeless man smoldered.
According to Chris Robb (Chris Robb), one of the employees of the project Internet2, said that the cables suffered Level 3 Communications, passing through the bridge Longfellow Bridge (which is known as the "Bridge of salt and pepper"), connecting Boston and Cambridge. Engineers assure that it will take one or two days to eliminate the consequences of a fire.
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