What I wonder is what they mean by "shutdown". If this means that the equipment is unplugged, then how many of these alternate providers will suddenly discover that they have a dependency on an Ebone SDH/SONET ADM or an Ebone DWDM box? If management at these alternate providers is just hunting through their databases looking for KPN/Qwest dependencies they probably won't see the complete picture. KQ only completed the Ebone acquisition back in March and about a year earlier, Ebone was doing business under the name GTS or Global Telesystems. Most people who bought wavelengths or leased lines from Ebone would have done it under those names and most of those companies were carriers or network operators.
This could get interesting. Personally, I hope that the NOC employees in Brussels succeed in getting potential buyers to realize the value of a functioning cross-border fiber network that covers all of Europe.
Michael, I can't imagine a single carrier that doesn't know that HER=GTS=EBONE=KQ. [Certainly by the volume of orders I've seen somebody knows ! :D] Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking neil@DOMINO.ORG