Re: MCI outage

["Michael H. Lambert" <lambert () psc edu>]

> Often most of the major carriers will be using the same set of pipes
> across
> bridges and railway/highway overpasses.  AT&T was advertising their 
> "redundant path" network where they supposedly made some effort to avoid
> this.  They were passing out maps and photos of spots with signs from
> all the major carriers.
>
> Power, gas, etc. are often on those same bridges.

So if the New Madrid fault were to let loose today with the Big One, how
much transcontinental bandwidth would remain?

Michael


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