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To: GraceZ who wrote (3372)	7/20/2001 11:38:02 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (3) of 46821

re: The Baltimore Train Disaster: > > I'm not sure where they could run temporary fiber... > > Next to the fire hoses snaking down the street? > You'd be surprised what they can come up with on short notice. > For temporary fixes fiber can be quickly rolled out next to railroad > tracks (yes, just laying on the ground) or down other right of way > (sometimes even public roads). They generally put it in an innerduct The Baltimore Sun has a graphic showing the re-routed fiber optic line. sunspot.net I understand all the carriers have people working very hard to fix the cut, but the question which is rarely asked and even more rarely answered is where was the physical diversity in those carriers networks? Did these carriers know about this vulnerability in their network? When customers asked, were the customers told? What are MFN or Worldcom sales people telling customers who ask what happened to their network diversity? ---- The above contributed by Sean Donelan on teh NANOG List. ---- As an aside (This is FAC speaking now), today I had cause to send out a bulletin to about a dozen folks across multiple orgs. Three of them were MFN types. All of the MFN emails bounced. There were no WCOM recipients on the list, so I don't know how they are weathering, although I would suspect that their ubiquity and the sheer number of routes that they have would lend to a greater likelihood of recoverability.

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