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Lydia Leong has been involved in ISP operations, engineering, and business strategy for most of her career. After engineering director positions at Digex and Excite@Home, she became an Internet industry analyst at Gartner. Opinions that she posts here are strictly her own, and are not to be construed as official Gartner positions.
The Internet, ultimately, is a fragile thing, as an entity. It depends upon the consensus of those responsible for its infrastructure to operate on a daily basis. Because of the inherent robustness as a technical architecture, there is no entity that can "break the Internet" in the sense of stopping the flow of traffic, but there are several entities that can create a variety of inconveniences, some minor and some serious, for the millions who use the Internet. more
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