Actually, I think we should all be more concerned that in most metro cities, there is always 1 major mega CO. In the CO, not only do the RBOCs have tremendous critical technology aggregated there, but almost every telcom provider also locates key technology and network there. Knocking out that facility would critically damage both voice and data in that region. It is also a critical interconnect point btw operators since they all happen to be there. Does anyone still remember that event in Atlanta where worldcom lost power in one of their facilities after a storm knocked out power, and the generator had contaminated fuel (circa 1997). That had a major affect on communications and we are not even talking RBOC CO. At 5:46 -0800 11/27/02, Eliot Lear wrote:
Yah, the abstract indicates what most of us already know. Good coverage and redundancy options in urban areas; less so for rural areas. Why should this shock anyone? Imminent death of the 'net is *not predicted ;-)
Eliot
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