[8636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael H. Lambert)
Sun Apr 13 15:07:53 1997
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 97 14:14:29 -0400
From: "Michael H. Lambert" <lambert@psc.edu>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
cc: "Michael H. Lambert" <lambert@psc.edu>
>Often most of the major carriers will be using the same set of pipes
>across
>bridges and railway/highway overpasses. AT&T was advertising their
>"redundant path" network where they supposedly made some effort to avoid
>this. They were passing out maps and photos of spots with signs from
>all the major carriers.
>
>Power, gas, etc. are often on those same bridges.
So if the New Madrid fault were to let loose today with the Big One, how
much transcontinental bandwidth would remain?
Michael
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