Thorne’s team at Imagine Communications (formerly Harris Broadcast) looks for three specific signals:
: Designing and testing software for real-time broadcast equipment and control systems. System Integration
In 53 seconds, the loop would saturate the satellite link. In 2 minutes, the buffers would overflow. In 5 minutes, all twelve routers would enter a crash-restart-crash cycle known in the trade as a "routing death spiral."
"Every time you watch a live event—the Olympics, the Super Bowl, a hurricane broadcast on CNN—someone is staring at a Harris Router Mapper. If that square is green, you see video. If it's red, black screens. My code sits between chaos and broadcast. That’s why I do this."