[Air-l] Internet traffic on Sept. 11

[radhika_gajjala]

I got this from  Communications-related Headlines for 9/17/01

At 12:08 PM -0400 9/17/01, Rachel Anderson wrote:
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>INTERNET SURPASSES ITS ORIGINAL GOAL
>Issue: Internet
>Almost 40 years after it was conceived as a method of maintaining
>communications in the event of an attack on the United States, the Internet
>- long since broadened past that purpose - last week had the first real test
>of its original goal. According to firms that analyze Web site traffic and
>performance, while some sites slowed, the overall flow of data across the
>Internet was not degraded by either damage to critical fiber optic lines or
>the clogging of those lines by Web users. On Tuesday morning, pages at many
>of the most popular web sites took nearly three to four times the normal
>average to load, but over the next several hours, that average returned to
>normal.
>[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Bob Tedsechi]
>(http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/17/technology/17ECOM.html)
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