tat-14's landing sites are green hill, rhode-island and shirley, new york are they not? joelja On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Anthony Townsend wrote:
dont forget too that a good part of transatlantic fiber is backhauled through the holland tunnel into lower manhattan, one of many reasons why all the co-los are on the lower west side (in addition to cheap buildings with heavy load capacity). also one of the (again many) reasons i presume the tunnel has remained closed.
according to Telegeography, Inc of Washington DC most of the BIG capacity cables like Mercus-1 and TAT14 come ashore in New Jersey around Manasquan. its mostly the older stuff that arrives on Long Island.
--- Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jan-Ahrent Czmok wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:00:30 +0100 Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> wrote:
AB> 111 8th Avenue. These buildings are
AB> NY itself is pretty much an SPoF as far as
significant PoF in NY, and transatlantic communication
AB> is concerned.
Well.. I would declare the SPoF rather in the whole area. Fibre trails are coming in from the seaside mostly near Mineola.
Mostly? I donut think so; my recollection is a vast majority of trans-atlantic stuff coming in ocean and monmouth county, NJ (manasquan, etc).
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