The P2P connection with Taiwan quake disruption

Not sure if this gets posted as I am on a very weak connection restored today after being unable to access ITVidya for a couple of days after the internet connection in Singapore got disrupted due to under sea cable damage in Taiwan Quake.

Yes, for a moment it looked like we have gone back to medieval age! The quake might have spared the massive damage to human lives this time on boxing day. But it has definitely exposed the vulnerability of central systems in a increasingly distributed and globalized era of connectivity.

Here in Singapore, I was able to surf through sites east of me whose servers were located in India, Middle East but most sites in Europe routed through the US and US sites were inaccessible. Even Skype which is supposed to be a peer-to-peer voice communication software failed to connect for one whole day before it started working as normal.

This further emboldened my belief in peer-to-peer systems that work in an adhoc manner. Had the application connectivity was based on a distributed approach or pure p2p it would have worked seamlessly by routing the traffic through router peers located in unaffected regions like India or China or elsewhere. A failsafe and resilient routing mechanism inbuilt into a system would help eliminate or reduce downtime.

The incident has added another reason why P2P should be taken seriously by enterprises and governments because it is about people, points (locations) and probability!

A lot more to write in the coming years! Wishing the members of ITVidya, all Bloggers and blog readers worldwide a great year ahead!!

Cheers,

Rajesh
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