At 3:04 PM -0700 7/16/97, Scott Landman wrote:
If fibers being cut is the culprit here, does going with a supplier like Qwest make sense because their fibers are running down railroad right of ways and, therefore, should be less succeptible to a backhoe digging where it shouldn't be?
Ha! There are at least 3 major fiber runs paralleling the old SP (now CalTrain) train tracks from SF to SJ. These tracks run under 280 on the south side of the city, and 280 is being retrofitted. There is lots and LOTS of deep digging going on, in fact I saw a pile of those "don't dig here" orange posts in a scrap pile next to the construction when I was waling around there last week. I remember signs for AT&T, Wiltel and Sprint on the same post, and I think MCI but I'm not positive. One minor backhoe missup and there is a serious outage in the city here. -- Rusty Hodge <rusty@hodge.com>, San Francisco