RE: Our Qwest Testimonial: qwestoutage.com

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

At 12:22 PM 9/18/2001 -0400, Smith, Rick wrote:
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>Dsl.net was up all night, down again this morning.
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>Blah.  Their idea of redundant links must have been 1 fiber into Tower 1 and
>another into Tower 2.  They'll never BOTH go away, Right?

Not to say anything about Qwest, but honestly, I would have thought fiber 
into each tower *WAS* "redundant" (assuming separate fiber paths into each 
building so one backhoe cannot hit both).

Until last week anyway.....

This really is way outside most people's "disaster recovery" scenarios.  I 
can see the thinking now: "If both WTC towers fall over, we have much 
bigger things to worry about than fiber cuts."  And they were right.

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TTFN,
patrick