NYT: Attacks Expose Telephone's Soft Underbelly

Mon Oct 15 05:51:55 UTC 2001

The New York Times is reporting about some of the issues Verizon
is facing with its New York recovery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/15/technology/15PHON.html

Although most people are focusing on Verizon, things are much
more interesting when you look at the interaction of all the
different carriers in lower Manhattan.  And what I think is
more important, what happened outside of Manhattan.  Carriers
restored service be re-routing circuits through Cleveland and
London (Yes, England).

One issue that did come up was government planning was limited
to Verizon.  So alternate capacity which could have been used
during the first few days went unused, and some services were
disrupted because employees of non-Verizon carriers weren't
allowed into the area.