[10880] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Fairbanks)
Wed Jul 16 20:33:55 1997
From: Chris Fairbanks <chrisf@winterlan.com>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:05:46 -0700
Doesn't Sprint stand for Southern Pacific Railroad INTernational?
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikos Mouat [SMTP:nikm@ixa.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 4:19 PM
> To: Scott Landman
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
>
>
> If you're suggesting that Qwest is the only carrier using railroad
> right
> of ways I suggest you take a closer look at those little orange posts
> running along the side of train tracks.. I've seen MCI, Worldcom,
> AT&T,
> sprint and others running along the same tracks from Seattle to
> Portland.
>
> nm
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, 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
> > 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?
