On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:46 PM, john_ke5c wrote: > > During Katrina there was Internet connectivity available through a > > couple of ISP NOCs (even though the building was flooded). If > >
I don't care much about the original topic, since most of the time hams aren't involved in anything but the first 48 hours... but... There was a "famous" group of ISP techs that barricaded themselves inside a downtown NO building, armed themselves, and kept the Internet connectivity running to their datacenter as long as they could, while maintaining various forms of outside communication with "the world" via their website and other means (IRC, IM clients, e-mail, etc.) I can't find the link right now, but they were there. So... *if* there are dedicated infrastructure/communications people, yes... the ISP's and/or datacenters and pockets of Internet connectivity can stay operational, if the generators have fuel and there's trained folks to keep the gear running... and the fiber ingress/egress routes into/out of an area aren't severed. (Severing the fiber ingress/egress routes into/out of any disaster area will mangle communications for at least a number of days, while a special emergency fiber splicing crew is transported to the location of the cut.) Residential service is probably going to drop, in most areas... without AC grid power. Nate Duehr, WY0X [email protected] facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot
