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To: Gottfried who wrote (56833)	12/3/2001 2:52:21 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 70976

OT After seeing this, I am a lot less negative about AT&T: Since early October, AT&T has had some 400 engineers, software developers, technicians and other employees working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to construct a network capable of handling high-speed Internet traffic. Led by AT&T's chief technology officer, Hossein Eslambolchi, the telecom giant leaned heavily on vendors and raided its own inventory to deploy more than 250 communications circuits and more than 300 routing and switching devices, and to reach agreements with local phone companies in some cases. "This had been like building a giant stadium in seven weeks," said an AT&T employee who worked on the project but declined to be named. "We had to build a foundation and put in the seats." Message 16736115