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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Avi Freedman wrote: > > Sorry I was not able to make it to NANOG to present, but I wanted to > > answer one question. Avi Freedman asked what would we do if a airplane > > crashed into the side of the Atlanta-NAP. The Atlanta-NAP is at 230 > > Peachtree on the 5th floor. There are two buildings around this building > > that go up to the 8th floor. If a airplane was to crash in the Atlanta-NAP > > direction it would not hit our building. If it did hit the other side of > > the building it may cut MCI metro fiber, but we have MFS and Bell South > > fiber from two different sides and two different power feed to the 5th > > floor. > > Of course, I was half-joking, but why only one Gigaswitch? Why not two, > for redundancy, as is implemented at Pennsauken? > > With a backup FDDI ring? > And I assume, spare power supplies and processors? Well, hay we started with a gigaswitch, MFS starts with only a FDDI ring, or even a catlyst. We do plan to add a second gigaswitch around Jan 1st. We do have spare power supplies and processors yes. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email [email protected] Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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