[158070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Verge article about Verizon's Sandy Cleanup Efforts in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Tue Nov 20 12:15:30 2012
In-Reply-To: <2671C6CDFBB59E47B64C10B3E0BD5923033807F06A@PRVPEXVS15.corp.twcable.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:10:27 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "George, Wes" <wesley.george@twcable.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:55 AM, George, Wes <wesley.george@twcable.com> w=
rote:
>> From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.lists@gmail.com]
>> >
>> > http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/17/3655442/restoring-verizon-service-m
>> > anhattan-hurricane-sandy
>> >
>>
>> hey lookie! 'free uprades'!
>>
>
> [WEG] Better that than "we're going to replace all of this old technology=
with exactly the same stuff because that's what the standards document say=
s to do" like happened in the rebuilding efforts for Katrina. I remember so=
meone presenting about that rebuilding effort during NANOG years ago, and I=
asked about opportunities for improvement and upgrades and was really depr=
essed at the missed opportunity it represented as they confirmed that they =
were in fact laying new copper...
yea. it's acutally kinda nice that at least from CO -> building now
there maybe more highspeed links... and maybe lower long term costs?
Also, now VZ can sell the copper to all the rest of us for use in
fiber camouflage!
