As to be expected, there continues to be a certain amount [not too much, but enough to be disconcerting] of spin and coyness from some of the service providers, in general, despite the current circumstances demanding of full disclosure. For example, one of AT&T's spokespeople stated last week that there was no impact to AT&T's *Long Distance* Network. Nowhere in the same release, however, did they mention that their main NY City hub for AT&T/LNS (Local Network Services) was covered by rubble. Incidentally, our office in the South Street Seaport district and we are totally o.o.s. We just received power a little while ago from one of the many portable generators that were shipped in by ConEd. But we have no visible means of obtaining status for voice and data comms at this time, and of course, our 'Net services are linked via a West Street subscriber loops, which places us s.o.o.l. As an aside, I'm told that VZ has 'remote-ed,' through the use of fiber-remote nodes, some of their nxx switching entities to Pearl Street and Broad Street, in cases where users had dual-fed loop access in place as a part of their contingency plans for just this type of disaster. -FAC sean@donelan.com wrote:

dan kelley writes:

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right. i think that info is form their site. they claim that they're working diligently to install new lines to circumvent 140 west. what i haven't heard (and couldn't get them to say) is when they think they'll have the first coulpe of OC-48s installed.

I'm not sure why Qwest is being so closed-mouth about the status of their network. Qwest told Network World they had no damage to their network.

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0917attacks.html "Qwest Communications and WorldCom say their networks were not affected by the attacks."

I'd think it would be remarkable that any major carrier with service in New York City didn't experience some impact this week.