Re: LA power outage?

["william(at)elan.net" <william () elan net>]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

> It's also interesting to note that, at least by some estimates,
> the brief power outage in L.A. yesterday took down more networks
> than Hurrucane Katrina:
>
> http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170702966
>
> Of course, So. California is pretty "network-dense", but what does
> that say about the level of seriousness that network operators place
> on their "uptime"?

I think there is a difference as to network going down for 3 hours
and network going down for 3 months...

BTW - care to speculate what will happen if cat5 hurricane hits LA? :)
Or maybe we should be thinking of 8+ earthquake ....

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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