[92901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Hargrave)
Thu Oct 19 05:03:18 2006
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:02:26 +0100
From: Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Todd Underwood <todd-nanog@renesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061015010141.GC12991@docforge.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Todd Underwood wrote:
> nice commentary, rodney. useful.
>
> one additional fact is relevant here: at it's peak, boeing connexion
> employed over 670 people (mike hughes pointed me to the nubmer and i
> can't find the link).
It is an astonishing number, was over 750 at it's peak.
http://www.boeing.com/employment/employment_table.html
I'm curious as to how many folk carried out different kinds of jobs. I
imagine a huge proportion deal/dealt with installations which is going
to be a labour intensive process on aircraft.
People wondering about at-seat power (including the AC 'myth') can check
here http://www.seatguru.com/ - no idea how accurate it is.
Will
