Qwest Utah fiber cut

David Meyer dmm at 1-4-5.net
Fri May 21 19:25:21 UTC 2004


>> 
>> I was hoping someone might be able to shed some light on the Utah cut.
>> 
>> The news report said that the cut happened near Monroe Utah, which is several miles off of I 70.  Yet the cities that were reported effected included St. George, Cedar City, and Salt Lake, which all are adjacent to I 15.
>> 
>> The puzzling part is that in our "best effort" database Qwest does not have long haul fiber running down I 70, but it does have a lot of fiber running down I 15.  There is Qwest fiber on I 15, all the cities affected are on I 15 yet the reported cut was near Monroe off of I 70.
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>> I'm not familiar with Utah geogrpahy and this comes simply from looking at our maps.  Just trying to sort out the seeming discrepency.  Any insight?
>> 
>> 

BTW, does anyone know if this is what took out SkyWest Airlines
yesterday? (HQ and apparently all databases they need to operate
in Utah).  They were grounded nation-wide for about 3.5 hours. 

Dave



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