RE: BOOM! there goes WorldCom

[Chris Fairbanks <chrisf () winterlan com>]

Doesn't Sprint stand for Southern Pacific Railroad INTernational?

        Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikos Mouat [SMTP:nikm () ixa net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 1997 4:19 PM
> To:   Scott Landman
> Cc:   nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
>
>
> If you're suggesting that Qwest is the only carrier using railroad
> right
> of ways I suggest you take a closer look at those little orange posts
> running along the side of train tracks.. I've seen MCI, Worldcom,
> AT&T,
> sprint and others running along the same tracks from Seattle to
> Portland.
>
> nm
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Scott Landman wrote:
>
> > If fibers being cut is the culprit here, does going with a supplier
> like
> > Qwest make sense because their fibers are running down railroad
> right of
> > ways and, therefore, should be less succeptible to a backhoe digging
> where
> > it shouldn't be?  Or are you looking at other, more secure mediums
> for the
> > bulk of your traffic?