Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/20
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Precisely my point. You cannot keep all the useless chatter off the public
internet, and it clogs up almost immediately in a crisis, just like the
cell system.
Gene
Brian Reid
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owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - Dayton Hamvention
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05/20/2003 09:41 AM
Please respond to
leica-users
> I'm not sure I would say the internet is more reliable as both it and
cell
> phones are the first to jam up and break don in an emergency, and good
old
> Ham radio is the one most relied on in these situations.
In 1991 I had administrative responsibility for ITAR compliance for Digital
Equipment Corporation. ITAR limits arms exports, and we needed, at
intervals, to certify that we were not exporting arms. As such, I was on
the Commerce Department notification list of what constituted "arms".
One day, without explanation, the Cisco AGS router showed up on the ITAR
arms list. I spent some time looking into the reason why.
It seems that in Gulf War I, the initial mission of the US air attacks was
to disable Iraqi communication networks, but we discovered that no amount
of bombing was able to disable the Iraqi army communication network. Some
weeks later, we discovered that they had built a voice-over-IP network
using Cisco AGS routers, all retrofitted for 48 volts and buried
underground. The standard voice and cellular networks were taken out with
the first few cruise missiles, but no amount of bombing disabled the
military communication network.
Internet is intrinsically more reliable. You just have to keep the millions
of useless chatters off it during an emergency. Just like the highway
system.
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