Which points at the value of CDNs as a redundancy to a failed data enter for distribution ...but in terms of outright access those don’t matter when it comes to turning off service at the last mile for folks when the legacy networks go dark
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At least if some last mile routers go offline, the internet as a whole still works. Just some people lose access (via wires). Eventually there’ll always be a cluster of satellites overhead, which should make this less of a concern
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Those communities that lose access in that transition are known now ...it’s not a couple houses and I’m not certain about the mesh of solutions to accommodate the bandwidth are capable of that today or will be in time - we’ll see?
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There will be outages. Question is how severe
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They know, it can be quantified - physical network bandwidth became an issue as Netflix/YT ramped up Which is a factor in these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_2008_wireless_spectrum_auction … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirecTV ...and ultimately NN
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They know for US and probably other G20 countries. The wider internet is less certain/knowable
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These examples are almost exclusively for the US Much of the developing world does not have a legacy copper landline network with geographic spread that is comparable
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