[43481] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Oct 15 15:42:48 2001
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:41:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Steve Goldstein wrote:
> 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.
Interesting. Qwest originally told reporters that Qwest's
network was not affected by the attacks.
http://www.idg.net/spc_694754_190_9-10025.html
In other news reports, Qwest spokespersons are quoted as
saying there was some blockage, but otherwise Qwest's network
was operating normally. Qwest didnt' file an FCC outage
report.
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Filings/Network_Outage/2001/report.html
Due to the security clampdown, I suspect it will be years before
(if ever) we learn what happened with the telecommunications
infrastructure.
