MCI outage

Sun Apr 13 18:14:29 UTC 1997

>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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