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RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:41:11 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Steve Goldstein wrote:
I was told by a Qwest senior officer that Qwest initially restored some service in lower Manhattan with line-of-sight laser Rx/Tx links. We at NSF use such a rooftop-rooftop link to get our ISP service from Qwest which happens to be catty-corner across the street from us.
Interesting. Qwest originally told reporters that Qwest's network was not affected by the attacks. http://www.idg.net/spc_694754_190_9-10025.html In other news reports, Qwest spokespersons are quoted as saying there was some blockage, but otherwise Qwest's network was operating normally. Qwest didnt' file an FCC outage report. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Filings/Network_Outage/2001/report.html Due to the security clampdown, I suspect it will be years before (if ever) we learn what happened with the telecommunications infrastructure.
Current thread:
- RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly Sean Donelan (Oct 15)
- RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly Steve Goldstein (Oct 15)
- RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly Sean Donelan (Oct 15)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly Frank Coluccio (Oct 15)
- RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly Kevin Gannon (Oct 15)
- RE: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly Steve Goldstein (Oct 15)