The Day The Web Went Dead

Forbes by Scott Woolley | Dec. 2, 2008 (News Report)

On Oct. 30, Sprint Nextel severed its last connection to Cogent Communications, disconnecting two of the Internet's five largest backbones. Instantly, major American and Canadian universities lost contact with each other. Officials in Maine's state government found they couldn't link up with many town governments. Millions of Sprint's wireless broadband customers found themselves cut off from thousands of Web sites Full Story »

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Topics: Internet, Telecommunications
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Posted by: Posted by Subramanya Sastry - Dec 4, 2008 - 6:53 AM PST
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 by Marius Chitosca - Dec. 6, 2008

Well dissected issue between Sprint and Cogent -- two main providers in the backbone of the Internet. Facts, story line, bottom line, all corroborating into a chance for deep thinking about the deregulated and less known anatomy of the Internet's privately owned infrastructure.

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