On 1/18/07, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can your network survive the collapse of a building on top of it?
s/a building/one of the biggest buildings in the world/
What other system is engineered for failure as well as the POTS stuff? Railroad signaling? Lunar Lander life support? Fighter aircraft?
I know critical military and spaceflight hardware certainly is, which is why I qualified my own statement with "public sector". :) I would expect commercial flight hardware is probably similarly robust, but I don't have any real knowledge of the stuff. The only other public sector stuff I know of with this level of fault tolerance is medical life support equipment. Railroad signalling is a good possibility, I didn't think of that. One might expect that to be highly fault tolerant. On the other hand, from what I gather, it isn't. From what I can tell, they appear to rely on the engineer to make intelligent decisions in the event of signal failure. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
