[43480] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Goldstein)
Mon Oct 15 14:59:28 2001
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:58:02 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>
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I was told by a Qwest senior officer that Qwest initially restored
some service in lower Manhattan with line-of-sight laser Rx/Tx links.
We at NSF use such a rooftop-rooftop link to get our ISP service from
Qwest which happens to be catty-corner across the street from us.
--Steve
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