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Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Giza)
Wed Jul 16 19:03:30 1997

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:57:30 -0400
From: Peter Giza <giza@adsmart.net>
To: Scott Landman <Scott_Landman@zd.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu

Scott Landman wrote:
> 
> If fibers being cut is the culprit here, does going with a supplier like
> Qwest make sense because their fibers are running down railroad right of

only if the train doesn't jump track and rip all that beautiful fiber up
for the next half mile :(

> ways and, therefore, should be less succeptible to a backhoe digging where
> it shouldn't be?  Or are you looking at other, more secure mediums for the
> bulk of your traffic?

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