Wow, what an interesting development in the world of Internet traffic. Several news outlets are reporting an AP story that Google network traffic (certainly not all of Google traffic just that related to businesses) was rerouted though a Nigerian ISP, then to Russia and then to China. That kind of routing does not happen by accident and it is the second time in two months that traffic has been rerouted to the ultimate destination of China. Google says "no worries" because most of the traffic was encrypted, but the companies still do worry because that is a service disruption and they pay for service not promises of service.
We should worry about COMCAST too. COMCAST has had a boatload of service outages this past year and they don't seem to have redundancy or backups for a lot of their services. It may not be the same kind of thing, but this is indicative of an infrastructure that needs work.
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