[94435] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Mon Jan 22 09:05:59 2007
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:57:15 -0500
In-Reply-To: <0747ACC0-73EF-45A3-A8F6-60FB231B34BA@multicasttech.com>
From: "Jamie Bowden" <jamie@photon.com>
To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:01 AM
> To: Brian Wallingford
> Cc: Rod Beck; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake -=20
> PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted
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> On Jan 21, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Brian Wallingford wrote:
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> > That's news?
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> > The same still happens with much land-based sonet, where "diverse =20
> > paths"
> > still share the same entrance to a given facility. Unless=20
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> Entrances, ha. Anyone remember that railroad tunnel in Baltimore ?
> And I am pretty sure that Fairfax County isn't much better.
We have a railroad tunnel in Fairfax?
On the less snarky side, I suspect that one wrong move by a backhoe
along the Dulles Toll Road would screw about half the east coast.
Jamie Bowden
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"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
