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[email protected] (Paul Ferguson) writes: >I just heard on the local news that 3 fiber optic cables, as well as >one large copper bundle was cut in the Tyson's Corner area (Northern >Virginia). No idea what impact it may have on net traffic, although one >fiber strand was reported as belonging to MCI. > >For those who may not know, MAE-East is in the Tysons Corner vicinity. Things that make you go Hmmm! Yesterday I received a very strange phone call from a person claiming to be with MCI/Worldcom wanting to talk to me about verifying Y2K readiness of our equipment at MAE-East. He wanted to verify the address, and wanted to send a tech over to check serial numbers of equipment. Our MCI/Worldcom sales rep says he knows nothing about MCI/Worldcom doing this, nor why MCI/Worldcom wouldn't already know the address of their own building. I wonder if he just was fishing, to find out where to send the backhoe :-) -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
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