[113325] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Thu Apr 9 20:10:27 2009
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:41:21 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1CE4AEB0-84DC-4225-8E3B-7C45BC1FF2DF@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Robert M. Enger wrote:
>
>>
>> That AT&T has stopped provisioning protection fiber for automatic
>> restoral is mind boggling.
>>
>> That our crack (or on crack) govt contracting/emergency-preparedness
>> staff didn't demand protected facilities for 911 is another mind
>> boggling issue.
>
> This costs $$$ and usually isn't a problem as there are other ways
> to communicate. The law-enforcement folks qualify for GETS so get
> priority on wired/PSTN. They can also get radio priority w/ WPS.
>
>>
I didn't know about WPS.
http://policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=839&issue_id=32006
Interesting stuff.
