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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Steve Goldstein wrote: > I was told by a Qwest senior officer that Qwest initially restored > some service in lower Manhattan with line-of-sight laser Rx/Tx links. > We at NSF use such a rooftop-rooftop link to get our ISP service from > Qwest which happens to be catty-corner across the street from us. Interesting. Qwest originally told reporters that Qwest's network was not affected by the attacks. http://www.idg.net/spc_694754_190_9-10025.html In other news reports, Qwest spokespersons are quoted as saying there was some blockage, but otherwise Qwest's network was operating normally. Qwest didnt' file an FCC outage report. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Filings/Network_Outage/2001/report.html Due to the security clampdown, I suspect it will be years before (if ever) we learn what happened with the telecommunications infrastructure.
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