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RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 20:51:56 -0800
Back in the '70s, I always heard "survive hostile battlefieldconditions" and never heard anyone talk about comms survival of a nuclear event, but I wasn't in any interesting conversations, such as in front of funding agencies... To survive an EMP, electronics needs some fancy circuitry. I've never worked with a bit of equipment that had it. It would therefore have to have been through path redundancy.
It was designed to be robust but it wasn't designed to survive nuclear war. There WERE some networks that were designed to survive, though, so maybe some have confused them. I think what I hear seems to confuse MILNET with MILSTAR where MILNET was the military portion of the Internet (what has eventually evolved into NIPRNet) and MILSTAR which is a satellite network designed to be nuclear survivable. When it absolutely positively has to get there.
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- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch, (continued)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Matthew Moyle-Croft (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Ken Chase (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Jay Ashworth (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Ken Chase (Feb 04)
- RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch George Bonser (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Jack Bates (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Randy Bush (Feb 04)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Fred Baker (Feb 05)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Dave CROCKER (Feb 05)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Fred Baker (Feb 05)
- RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch George Bonser (Feb 05)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch bmanning (Feb 05)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Michael Coxe (Feb 06)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Lamar Owen (Feb 07)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Barry Shein (Feb 06)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Dave CROCKER (Feb 06)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Fernando Gont (Feb 27)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 06)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Jay Ashworth (Feb 05)
- Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Fred Baker (Feb 05)
- RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch Ryan Finnesey (Feb 05)