[5771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Airplane crashing into Atlanta-NAP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sat Oct 26 19:39:43 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:36:44 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961026160310.26885B-100000@netrail.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Oct 26, 96 04:13:17 pm
> Sorry I was not able to make it to NANOG to present, but I wanted to
> answer one question. Avi Freedman asked what would we do if a airplane
> crashed into the side of the Atlanta-NAP. The Atlanta-NAP is at 230
> Peachtree on the 5th floor. There are two buildings around this building
> that go up to the 8th floor. If a airplane was to crash in the Atlanta-NAP
> direction it would not hit our building. If it did hit the other side of
> the building it may cut MCI metro fiber, but we have MFS and Bell South
> fiber from two different sides and two different power feed to the 5th
> floor.
>
> Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
Of course, I was half-joking, but why only one Gigaswitch? Why not two,
for redundancy, as is implemented at Pennsauken?
With a backup FDDI ring?
And I assume, spare power supplies and processors?
Avi
