-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Marshall Eubanks Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:01 AM To: Brian Wallingford Cc: Rod Beck; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted
On Jan 21, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Brian Wallingford wrote:
That's news?
The same still happens with much land-based sonet, where "diverse paths" still share the same entrance to a given facility. Unless
each end
can
Entrances, ha. Anyone remember that railroad tunnel in Baltimore ? And I am pretty sure that Fairfax County isn't much better.
We have a railroad tunnel in Fairfax? On the less snarky side, I suspect that one wrong move by a backhoe along the Dulles Toll Road would screw about half the east coast. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>