InterTubes: A study of the us long-haul fiber-optic infrastructure

SIGCOMM 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 565-578

  Durairajan, Ramakrishnan ^a   Barford, Paul ^a,b   Sommers, Joel ^c   Willinger, Walter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ComScore Inc ^*  (United States)

^c Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^d Niksun Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Long haul fiber map; Risk mitigation; Shared risk

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONVOLUTIONAL CODES; DECISION MAKING; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FIBERS; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING; LONG HAUL; MUNICIPAL AGENCIES; POLICY DECISIONS; PROPAGATION DELAYS; RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE; RISK MITIGATION; TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 84962318152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2785956.2787499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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