patrick@ianai.NET (I Am Not An Isp) writes:
I can't believe I beat Sean.... :)
I was at Star Wars and turned my beeper off :-) We moved all of our equipment and circuits out of NYC after the WTC incident, too expensive, too high-profile, too risky. So I don't get much telemetry for outages in that area unless someone sends me an e-mail. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Sean Donelan was rumored to have said...
We moved all of our equipment and circuits out of NYC after the WTC incident, too expensive, too high-profile, too risky. So I don't get
Probably part of the reasons why the FAA keeps its critical centers such as the ARTCC centers outside of a metropolitan area, such as the Chicago ARTCC is (from memory) about 30-45 minutes west of the Chicago. Ultimately, that's only one factor in the equation dictating placement of network equipment. Cost, available facilities, interconnection needs, and so forth would be other valid factors. -Dan (P.S. For the uninitated, ARTCC stands for Air Route Traffic Control Center. http://www.faa.gov/ats/atssites.htm#artcc )
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Dan Foster said:
Probably part of the reasons why the FAA keeps its critical centers such as the ARTCC centers outside of a metropolitan area, such as the Chicago ARTCC is (from memory) about 30-45 minutes west of the Chicago.
Note that ARTCC dates from the Cold War era when many things, inc. CIA HQ were decentralized. (Of course, the weapons soon got bigger & more numerous, rendering such moot.) Also, it created vast headaches for TPC, as She had to run lines, lots of lines, to places like Oberlin OH and Leesburg VA that in the late 50's likely had a pair of party lines or so... -- 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
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