[10885] in North American Network Operators' Group
Railroad right of way - was Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rusty H. Hodge)
Wed Jul 16 22:32:58 1997
In-Reply-To: <082564D6.0078B116.00@mailer.zd.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:06:38 -0700
To: Scott Landman <Scott_Landman@zd.com>, nathan@netrail.net
From: "Rusty H. Hodge" <rusty@hodge.com>
Cc: bnite@tremere.ios.com, mpearson@games-online.com, nanog@merit.edu
At 3:04 PM -0700 7/16/97, 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?
Ha! There are at least 3 major fiber runs paralleling the old SP (now
CalTrain) train tracks from SF to SJ. These tracks run under 280 on the
south side of the city, and 280 is being retrofitted. There is lots and
LOTS of deep digging going on, in fact I saw a pile of those "don't dig
here" orange posts in a scrap pile next to the construction when I was
waling around there last week.
I remember signs for AT&T, Wiltel and Sprint on the same post, and I think
MCI but I'm not positive. One minor backhoe missup and there is a serious
outage in the city here.
--
Rusty Hodge <rusty@hodge.com>, San Francisco
