[11023] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schiffrin)
Fri Jul 18 14:43:46 1997
From: David Schiffrin <daves@adnc.com>
To: rs@bifrost.seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 11:16:11 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: perry@piermont.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707181548.LAA20014@bifrost.seastrom.com> from "Robert E. Seastrom" at Jul 18, 97 11:48:11 am
Recently there was an article in Scientific American (in the last 6 months)
which covered the same ground. It had some really great illustrations of
all the tunnels under Manhatten.
-dave
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> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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> Steam, rats, tunnel fires, steam system explosions, and water main
> breaks take out lots of fiber in NYC -- probably more that backhoe
> fade takes out elsewhere. However, backhoe fade itself (though not
> unheard of) is much rarer, largely because the conduits are deep and
> the streets are so jam packed that if you make a mistake about where
> you are it will be obvious Very Very Quickly.
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> Smithsonian Magazine had a fascinating article a few years back about
> the infrastructure jockeys who plan and install new stuff under the
> streets of Manhattan. "Jam-packed" might qualify for the
> understatement of the year award -- there is a lot of stuff down
> there, including lots (most?) which is incorrectly documented or not
> documented at all. Worth taking the time to look up if you're the
> kind of person who geeks out over that sort of thing.
>
> ---Rob
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