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

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

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!