Hurricane Sandy highlights Twitter's importance cloud computing into the internet to rescue God

According to foreign media reports, Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (Julis Ginachoski), said in Tuesday afternoon that Hurricane Sandy had caused 25% mobile communications stations in 10 states in the eastern United States to be damaged and not functioning, And the situation is likely to deteriorate further.

Hurricane Sandy is blocking US communications

The region's densest hub soaked in water as Hurricane Sandy triggered a flood of seawater into New York's southern Manhattan, leaving a number of popular websites paralysed and forcing major telecoms operators to change their international traffic lines. Cablevision, the US cable operator, says power outages have led to widespread failure to provide services normally. Time Warner Cable said it had not yet received reports of major damage to the company's cable network, but would not be able to watch the TV if the user's power was interrupted.

Verizon Wireless, At&t, Sprint and t the United States said it was addressing the problem of mobile communications services for hurricane-affected areas. Cable operators Cablevision, Comcast and Time Warner Cable also said there was a problem with the service. Sprint, the third-largest U.S. mobile operator, said some mobile base stations had stopped serving in the region where the hurricane was passing because of power outages.

The first life line after the social network disaster

According to Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (Julias Gnakoski), the impact of the hurricane will not end soon. And if commercial power cannot recover quickly, more communication base stations will stop serving after the standby power is depleted. The power supply in millions of homes in New York and New Jersey was disrupted. Many people like Ben Shahar have to give up television and radio and rely on social media to get information. While Hurricane Sandy is ravaging the east coast of the United States, many people can only keep in touch with friends and family through Facebook and Twitter. People also learn about the local government's response through social media. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been posting news on Twitter and holding a press conference. He spoke of "fire", "loss of home" and "loss of life".

As Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, electricity and network outages are occurring in parts of the country, with millions of of residents turning to Twitter as the main message and rescue hotline, Reuters reported. From Sunday onwards, government agencies and officials included orders and warnings to evacuate people through Twitter. As Hurricane Sandy moved to New York in the late Monday, residents flocked to the fire department's Twitter request to help stranded relatives and friends as the 911 rescue hotline was jammed with traffic.

Twitter suddenly discovers a new category of customers: the public sector that needs to spread information. The first "#Sandy" Hurricane page was built, using a manual and algorithmic selection of Twitter messages from the official Twitter account, such as the Mayor of New York. Others use Twitter advertising products to disseminate information. Twitter says it has offered to provide free information services to government departments, including broadcasting local alerts and publishing public information. A Twitter spokeswoman said the company had learned that Twitter could be a lifeline for people following the Japanese tsunami experience.

When the tsunami struck Japan last year, Twitter played a major role in attracting attention. This year, Twitter seems to have become increasingly important as government agencies, the news media and users are using Tittwer to publish information in a timely fashion.

Cloud computing boosts internet flight from Hurricane Talons

Cloud computing can make internet services less likely to suffer real disruptions. Enstratus NX, vice president of the Golden, said that telecom service providers should have facilities far enough away so that you can still get a service even if you encounter problems in an area. Although the "ripple effect" of some prominent Web sites has occasionally slowed the speed of communication across the United States, Internet services have weathered the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy in New York State and New Jersey, with relatively little serious problems.

U.S. Internet services in the early days of construction to take into account the problem of resilience, and the adoption of cloud computing in the support of the Internet, so in this storm, the performance of the U.S. Internet services is basically in line with expectations. "You will no longer hear the technologies of large content providers and we can bypass what is happening," said Jeffrey Young, spokesman for the US Content distribution Network service provider Akamai. ”

"The point of cloud computing is that companies are not going to encounter any kind of real service disruption unless there is a huge nuclear catastrophe." "said Bernard Golden, vice president of cloud software company Enstratus NX. "You would want a telecommunications service provider to have facilities far enough apart so that you can still get a service even if you encounter problems in an area." ”

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