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Re: The Backhoe Summit

  • From: John Fraizer
  • Date: Sun Sep 24 01:16:50 2000

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Steve Sobol wrote:

> John Fraizer wrote:
> 
> > Wow.  They must not have any fiber near our facility.  The folks running
> > the digging operations are keeping Plastikote in business selling orange
> > paint.  There seems to be more orange than black on the blacktop -- all of
> > it marked pretty clearly with the carrier name.
> 
> Same here. When work is done at 9th and Rockwell, behind my building,
> you will often see lots of markings in the middle of the road -
> generally,
> it'll be either AT&T, MFS or Ameritech's cabling being marked at
> that particular intersection.
> 
> 
> --
> North Shore Technologies, Cleveland, OH 
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> Steve Sobol, BOFH - President, Chief Website Architect and Janitor
> Linux Instructor, PC/LAN Program, Natl. Institute of Technology, Akron,
> OH
> [email protected] - 888.480.4NET - 216.619.2NET
> 

At our location, it's Ameritech, Ameritel, Williams, Winstar, ICG,
DIGEX/Intermedia, Prism, Time Warner, C&W, Worldcom, Nextlink and of
course EnterZone and CMH-IX.

We live in telco heaven though.  I can throw a rock and hit all of the
above from the roof of our NOC.  With all the construction going on around
here (additional fiber rings being built) I'm suprised they don't just
bolt the steal plates to the road to save time. <grin>

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc