On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:23 PM Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did other folk on nanog-l see the nLnog-l note copied here? > I wonder how folk are planning for things (noted in the slides) > o supply chain for parts/equipment > Wait, I can't get me a new shiny shipped because what?? > > o ongoing rollout of new equipment > I'm deploying next week in KIX, I'm currently in LAX how do I get > there? equipment arrives.. in between...oops! > > o noc/etc support staff > omg.. wait, I can't have my noc staff in the same room? our 'wfh' > solution is ... wait, where is that? > how do i get their phone queue sent to them? omg :( <sadness!> > > o services capacity crunches > I love my shiny new dns service.. .wait, why is there a smoking > hole where my dns servers were? > > I think some of this has been discussed (shifts in peaks, leveling of peaks) > Some hasn't really... I expect that at least sharing some 'err, our > WFH changed now we do: X, Y , Z and use M to get N solved' > could be super cool to discuss/share and iterate for better solutions > for all of our users. > > thoughts? :)
replying to myself, for one example of impact with some numbers: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/corona-virus note that basically across the board there is a 20% uplift in serving traffic mid-day. I imagine that netflix/hulu/etc all have similar sorts of changes, that translates downstream to some extent as well, depending upon how well / where the cache for this data is, I expect. It occurred to me in another conversation that a bunch of the 'internet business' has worked for the last 10+ years to push 'content' as close to the user as possible. This likely relieves long-haul or interconnect links at the (not really fixable) cost of increased capacity demands on the last-mile links. During this time, however, 'work from home' technology hasn't really progressed along the same path, has it? So, "get to the vpn" is still largely a process of getting packets across the wide internet and to small locations (your enterprise), there's little relief in site for that model :( > thanks! > -chris > (note all the hard work in this message is not mine... thanks Job!) > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Job Snijders <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:02 PM > Subject: Internet operations during pandemics > To: <[email protected]> > > > Dear all, > > I threw together a slidedeck today on the potential impact and second > order effects of COVID-19 on Internet network operations. > > http://instituut.net/~job/netops_during_pandemics.pdf > > I hope we together over time can add and extend projections in the deck > on what will happen and how we can mitigate the negative effects on > Internet operations. > > We have to answer questions such as: > > 1) what problems already exist today because of a few weeks of C19? > 2) What problems are still coming? Will those be localized or globally? > 3) What possible workarounds can we plan for those problems? > > I would appreciate feedback, comments, corrections or whatever you want > to tell me. None of us have been in this situation before, so my guess > is as good as yours. > > Kind regards, > > Job
