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Originally Posted by Dusty
You hit it with the MSM-main problem for the Country.
Martial Law goes from "possible" to "certain" if the internet goes down.
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Completely shutting down the internet in this country would be very difficult, if not impossible; local or regional shutdown are definitely possible though. Aside from the fact that the protocols which are responsible for connection and routing of traffic are/were designed for resiliency, there are many ingress and egress points for traffic in this country. Check out
http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ to get an idea of the submarine cable landing points here in the US; bear in mind that this doesn't even include domestic backbone circuits belonging to a multitude of carriers. Some recent incident's of note which prove this point were the strong storms(
derechos) that passed through central/eastern US during the summer and Hurricane Sandy. During the summer storms, datacenter's in Ashburn, VA which provide peering for many of major backbones on the east coast were knocked offline; while there was some connection issues and traffic degradation, overall, routing protocols designed for this scenario rerouted traffic through other circuits, avoiding the downed links.
My .02