On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:29:23AM -0400, Adam Kujawski wrote:
NANOG's Sean Gorman is in the news:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23689-2003Jul7.html
I would find GIS like the one described *very* usefull in finding transport providers. If I could see who has what where, I would know who to go to for quotes. As it stands, most of this information is hard to get ahold of.
Who, besides Sean, has maps like this? The state PUC? If so, is that information available to the public? Do you have to go thorugh a background check and/or sign an NDA? Or is it only the providers themselves that have the maps for this stuff?
This should be fairly easy to determine. Many of us know the fiber routes near our homes. They're sometimes nicely marked with a warning saying "danger buried fiber optic cables here, call miss dig" Here in ameritech land there are these nice white and orange poles that they stick up in the ground. Combine that with the data of the LERG and any highway, railway or other construction data from around the country in the past 10 years and you can easily determine the routes these cables are likely buried upon. One of the local villages had it on their agenda about how they were going to be a conduit for the internet and that one of the new long-distance telecom providers was going to put their repeater location in their down. I'm guessing that Sean did not have any access to anything other than what was publically available. If there is such paranoia about this, it's clearly possible to start a telecom build again as everyone makes their networks redundant and builds larger fences and perimiters around their sites. Security by obscurity is not viable for the long-term. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.