North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MCI outage
>Often most of the major carriers will be using the same set of pipes >across >bridges and railway/highway overpasses. AT&T was advertising their >"redundant path" network where they supposedly made some effort to avoid >this. They were passing out maps and photos of spots with signs from >all the major carriers. > >Power, gas, etc. are often on those same bridges. So if the New Madrid fault were to let loose today with the Big One, how much transcontinental bandwidth would remain? Michael ----- Michael H. Lambert, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: +1 412 268-4960 Fax: +1 412 268-8200 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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