AT&T network recovery preparations
As far as I know, AT&T is the only carrier which maintained the ability to rebuild an entire central office from a "smoking hole in the ground." Last year the program budget was in danger of being cut, and the program eliminated because it had never been needed. It was an expense, which couldn't be justified. I spoke with one of the managers last year, and he said "It would only take one catastrophe to pay for my entire budget." I don't believe he was thinking of this. http://www.att.com/network/recovery/preparing.html
http://www.att.com/ndr/ndr_e_d.html Quote: (AT&T has never lost an entire central office), Oh? I'm thinking of that panel office fire in NYC, circa 1970. It was the 212 toll switch building. Or do they mean the building as well as the contents? (I recall it as panel as much of the lube applied over the years had soaked into the paper/cotton cabling; this proved very hard to fully extinguish.) -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, David Lesher wrote:
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Quote: (AT&T has never lost an entire central office),
Oh?
I'm thinking of that panel office fire in NYC, circa 1970.
I've spoke with one of the people involved in the recovery of that office. The AT&T switch continued to operate through the fire and several weeks afterwards. They have a tape of a newscast where Mayor Koch is praising the efforts of New York Telephone and the people of New York. A better example is Hinsdale Illinois. As far as I know, I haven't met anyone personally involved with that one. It disrupted a lot of service, I don't think the fire destroyed the entire building. The most recent example is Rochelle Park, NJ; but I believe that building was officially owned by Bell Atlantic. There the damage was limited to power equipment. With divesture, the pre-divesture disasters as well as the Bell logo went on to the books of the LECs. AT&T's NDR has only been around since 1991. So the statement is technically correct, although it omits some details.
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