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Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 18 Sep 2001 10:40:00 -0700
This really is way outside most people's "disaster recovery" scenarios. I can see the thinking now: "If both WTC towers fall over, we have much bigger things to worry about than fiber cuts." And they were right.
Right as far as that goes, yes. But since fiber paths of that kind are used to feed cell towers and other parts of the communications infrastructure including emergency services infrastructure, it IS worth thinking about communications robustness even in the face of destruction on this scale. Not so that folks can surf the web but so that folks in air pockets can call out to their rescuers. -- Paul Vixie <vixie () eng paix net> President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNX)
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- Re: The backbone that sucks least?, (continued)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Paul Vixie (Sep 25)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Jim Popovitch (Sep 25)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Rafi Sadowsky (Sep 26)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Paul A Vixie (Sep 26)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Chris Beggy (Sep 26)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Nathan J . Mehl (Sep 28)
- Re: The backbone that sucks least? Paul Vixie (Sep 28)
- Ticketing System (was Re: The backbone that sucks least?) matthew zeier (Sep 29)
- RE: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Patrick W. Gilmore (Sep 18)
- Re: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com Paul Vixie (Sep 18)