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Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:19:41 -0700
Out of curiosity, why weren't there any existing emergency/last-resort microwave links already in place? It seems to be known that this cable is a single point of failure ahead of time. Were there previous plans to set up any microwave links that got put on the back burner or canceled?
Is there too much focus on fiber being the only option? IMO it's harder for a fire to destroy a microwave path vs. a fiber path, and some capacity is better than no capacity.
~Seth
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- Northern California fires and telecomm outages Mike (Oct 17)
- Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages Seth Mattinen (Oct 17)
- Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages Mike (Oct 18)
- Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages Constantine A. Murenin (Oct 17)
- Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages Mike (Oct 18)
- Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages Jean-Francois Mezei (Oct 17)
- Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages Mike Hammett (Oct 18)
- Re: Northern California fires and telecomm outages Seth Mattinen (Oct 17)