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122 Points of Presence to keep Australia online.Australian network engineers would likely protect the country?s internet connections from political control, the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) heard last night.
Discussing the severance of connections to Egypt in January and Libya last month, ISOC-AU vice president Narelle Clarke described various methods of taking a country offline.
She speculated that phone calls from Egyptian officials likely prompted local ISPs to turn off their routers, effectively taking the country offline for five-and-a-half days.
The Libyan Government appeared to have employed a different method to take Libya offline at around 3am Australian Eastern Standard time on 4 March.
Libya Telecom & Technology ? run by the son of Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi ? provided the country with most internet and telecommunications services.
According to Clarke, it was likely that officials reconfigured Libya?s network topology during a shorter internet blackout in February so the Government could later make bandwidth unavailable.
Australia too would have a single, large, fibre operator upon completion of the $43 billion, Government-built National Broadband Network.
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