SKC Science & Technology Webinar

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Outage: A peek into how Internet Routing affects services

Date/Time: Saturday, October 9, 2021, 6:00pm Indian Standard Time

Speaker: Deep Medhi, Program Director, National Science Foundation, USA and Curators' Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

Recording available at https://youtu.be/A9akxtWDFAU

Abstract: The recent outage of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp is big news. The speaker will highlight how routing works in the global internet and how services can be affected. Other similar incidents such as the Google outage in 2012 will also be discussed.

Bio: see https://sites.google.com/view/dmedhi/

Target Audience: This is for a wider audience. In particular, higher secondary and college students and teachers are welcome.

This webinar will be conducted over Zoom. The Zoom link will be available to registrants (sent to their email addresses) shortly before the webinar starts.

This webinar is part of SKC Science and Technology Webinar Series.

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