[5780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Airplane crashing into Atlanta-NAP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Sat Oct 26 22:22:46 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:20:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610262336.TAA08436@access.netaxs.com>
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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?
Well, hay we started with a gigaswitch, MFS starts with only a FDDI ring,
or even a catlyst. We do plan to add a second gigaswitch around Jan 1st.
We do have spare power supplies and processors yes.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
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