On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
Sorry I was not able to make it to NANOG to present, but I wanted to answer one question. Avi Freedman asked what would we do if a airplane crashed into the side of the Atlanta-NAP. The Atlanta-NAP is at 230 Peachtree on the 5th floor. There are two buildings around this building that go up to the 8th floor. If a airplane was to crash in the Atlanta-NAP direction it would not hit our building. If it did hit the other side of the building it may cut MCI metro fiber, but we have MFS and Bell South fiber from two different sides and two different power feed to the 5th floor.
Of course, I was half-joking, but why only one Gigaswitch? Why not two, for redundancy, as is implemented at Pennsauken?
With a backup FDDI ring? And I assume, spare power supplies and processors?
Well, hay we started with a gigaswitch, MFS starts with only a FDDI ring, or even a catlyst. We do plan to add a second gigaswitch around Jan 1st. We do have spare power supplies and processors yes. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34