Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link
Since 2008, the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link (also known as "The Washington-Moscow Hotline") uses redundant circuits of two satellite links and a fiber-optic cable. They use commercial facilities for at least part of the circuits. Past accidents have interrupted previous hotline circuits. A Danish bulldozer operator once cut the line near Copenhagen. A Finnish farmer once plowed it up. A fire in a Baltimore Maryland manhole took it out of service temporarily. Yep, even the hotline experienced cable cuts.
On 3/5/22 4:35 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
Since 2008, the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link (also known as "The Washington-Moscow Hotline") uses redundant circuits of two satellite links and a fiber-optic cable. They use commercial facilities for at least part of the circuits.
Past accidents have interrupted previous hotline circuits. A Danish bulldozer operator once cut the line near Copenhagen. A Finnish farmer once plowed it up. A fire in a Baltimore Maryland manhole took it out of service temporarily. Yep, even the hotline experienced cable cuts.
"You laughed when I told you that backhoes would be the end of mankind". Mike
Somewhere a Teleco Senior Executive is demanding updates every 8 minutes from an operations team and wondering what the hell was on that 120 count fiber in downtown Baltimore On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 7:42 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
On 3/5/22 4:35 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
Since 2008, the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link (also known as "The Washington-Moscow Hotline") uses redundant circuits of two satellite links and a fiber-optic cable. They use commercial facilities for at least part of the circuits.
Past accidents have interrupted previous hotline circuits. A Danish bulldozer operator once cut the line near Copenhagen. A Finnish farmer once plowed it up. A fire in a Baltimore Maryland manhole took it out of service temporarily. Yep, even the hotline experienced cable cuts.
"You laughed when I told you that backhoes would be the end of mankind".
Mike
On Mar 5, 2022, at 6:35 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
Since 2008, the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link (also known as "The Washington-Moscow Hotline") uses redundant circuits of two satellite links and a fiber-optic cable. They use commercial facilities for at least part of the circuits.
Past accidents have interrupted previous hotline circuits. A Danish bulldozer operator once cut the line near Copenhagen. A Finnish farmer once plowed it up. A fire in a Baltimore Maryland manhole took it out of service temporarily. Yep, even the hotline experienced cable cuts.
Wha??!?!!!??? You mean Biden can’t just DM Putin on Twitter? /s -Andy
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