Re: The Verge article about Verizon's Sandy Cleanup Efforts in Manhattan

[joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 11/20/12 9:10 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:55 AM, George, Wes <wesley.george () twcable com> wrote:
> > > From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.lists () gmail com]
> > > > http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/17/3655442/restoring-verizon-service-m
> > > > anhattan-hurricane-sandy
> > > hey lookie! 'free uprades'!
> > [WEG] Better that than "we're going to replace all of this old technology with exactly the same stuff because that's what 
> > the standards document says to do" like happened in the rebuilding efforts for Katrina. I remember someone presenting about that 
> > rebuilding effort during NANOG years ago, and I asked about opportunities for improvement and upgrades and was really depressed at the 
> > missed opportunity it represented as they confirmed that they were in fact laying new copper...
> yea. it's acutally kinda nice that at least from CO -> building now
> there maybe more highspeed links... and maybe lower long term costs?
>
> Also, now VZ can sell the copper to all the rest of us for use in
> fiber camouflage!
1200 pair is 5.5lbs per foot.  That's somewhere in the neighborhood of 
$100k per mile at retail scrap prices.
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