On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Steve Goldstein wrote:
I was told by a Qwest senior officer that Qwest initially restored some service in lower Manhattan with line-of-sight laser Rx/Tx links. We at NSF use such a rooftop-rooftop link to get our ISP service from Qwest which happens to be catty-corner across the street from us.
Interesting. Qwest originally told reporters that Qwest's network was not affected by the attacks. http://www.idg.net/spc_694754_190_9-10025.html In other news reports, Qwest spokespersons are quoted as saying there was some blockage, but otherwise Qwest's network was operating normally. Qwest didnt' file an FCC outage report. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Filings/Network_Outage/200... Due to the security clampdown, I suspect it will be years before (if ever) we learn what happened with the telecommunications infrastructure.