[25372] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher E. Brown)
Wed Oct 6 17:25:21 1999
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:45:59 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net>
To: Michael Heller <mikeh@earthweb.com>
Cc: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Michael Heller wrote:
>
> Has anyone come to the conclusion that there might be a market for
> titanium-reinforced innerduct?
> Add up the yearly costs of outages for the average provider and the high
> costs of indestructable conduit make more sense.
Anyone wanna figure the odds that once production of this
starts, and metal cost drop due to volume alloy production
titanium-reinforced buckets for the evil hoes will become available?
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