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Re: MCI outage

  • From: Michael H. Lambert
  • Date: Wed Apr 16 16:29:37 1997

>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


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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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