According to the Baltimore Sun, companies have laid 30,000 feet of
emergency fiber to patch around the damage in the Howard Tunnel.
"There was a ripple effect around the country with corporate networks
due to this Baltimore disaster," said Frank Stanton, an executive with
Lexent Inc., a New York-based company that repaired fiber-optic cable
after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. "Everybody thinks they
have redundancy, but these type incidents show people there are huge
issues. When you cross rivers and bridges, these choke points are the
Achilles' heel."
On the Washington DC to New York City fiber route, there seems to be
at least one train derailment leading to significant network traffic
re-routes every year.
"Rivers and bridges"?
Either Frank is sensationalizing his comments for the benefit of the
press, or he's been asleep since '93.
Seems to me the so-called "choke-points" now are more social and fiscal
than physical - I doubt rivers and bridges are much of an issue.
:According to the Baltimore Sun, companies have laid 30,000 feet of
:emergency fiber to patch around the damage in the Howard Tunnel.
:
: "There was a ripple effect around the country with corporate networks
: due to this Baltimore disaster," said Frank Stanton, an executive with
: Lexent Inc., a New York-based company that repaired fiber-optic cable
: after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. "Everybody thinks they
: have redundancy, but these type incidents show people there are huge
: issues. When you cross rivers and bridges, these choke points are the
: Achilles' heel."
:
:On the Washington DC to New York City fiber route, there seems to be
:at least one train derailment leading to significant network traffic
:re-routes every year.
Routes and rights-of-way and conduits have successfully resisted
virtualization. Highway and rail routes still carry almost all long-haul
fiber. The bridges are still the only way across the rivers. Poles, heaven
forfend, still work where holes are too expensive.
What did I miss in '93?
--Tom