[42806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T network recovery preparations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Sep 21 22:22:31 2001
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, David Lesher wrote:
> http://www.att.com/ndr/ndr_e_d.html
>
> Quote:
> (AT&T has never lost an entire central office),
>
> Oh?
>
> I'm thinking of that panel office fire in NYC, circa 1970.
I've spoke with one of the people involved in the recovery
of that office. The AT&T switch continued to operate through
the fire and several weeks afterwards. They have a tape of
a newscast where Mayor Koch is praising the efforts of New
York Telephone and the people of New York.
A better example is Hinsdale Illinois. As far as I know, I
haven't met anyone personally involved with that one. It
disrupted a lot of service, I don't think the fire destroyed
the entire building.
The most recent example is Rochelle Park, NJ; but I believe
that building was officially owned by Bell Atlantic. There the
damage was limited to power equipment.
With divesture, the pre-divesture disasters as well as the Bell
logo went on to the books of the LECs. AT&T's NDR has only been
around since 1991. So the statement is technically correct, although
it omits some details.
