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I here quest has dug up it's share of fibre according to worldcom. That locomotive with the plows (3 trenches) takes no prisoners At 3:32 AM -0000 9/23/98, Sean Donelan wrote: >>Nope, get a sat-phone, some wood & wet blankets, semephore flags, a >>mirror and >>brush up on you Moris code. .. (after reading up on tsunami threats for >>the So.Cal. area over the weekend :) > >Sat phones, smoke signals, and visual signals each have their own >failure modes. Rain-fade affects most of them. Each may be a useful >addition to your existing set of communication tools. None are >perfect substitutes for other types of telecommunication systems. >Amateur radio may be used to support life and safety operations, but >not commercial business. > >I'm still waiting for the time-warp telephone, for calling before >the event happens. But the causality loops lead to all sorts of >paradoxes. What if you go back in time and prevent Catapiller from >building the backhoe? With no excavating equipment what would have >buried the fiber? So there would be no fiber to get dug up, and no >reason to stop the backhoe from being built. Which .... >-- >Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO > Affiliation given for identification not representation Thank you, David Diaz Chief Technical Officer Netrail, Inc email: [email protected] pager: 888-576-1018 office: 888-NETRAIL Colo facilities: Atlanta-NAP, Miami, Arlington, Chicago, San Francisco 888-NETRAIL for further information
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