(perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

Tue Jul 17 15:27:46 UTC 2018

Also worth mentioning that AT&T Canada originated with the Canadian Pacific
Railway...

CP Railway and Unitel --> AT&T Canada --> Allstream --> MTS-Allstream -->
Zayo

I have a GIS dataset with about 90% of the most important hilltop and
mountaintop tower sites in WA, BC, OR and ID. There is a ton of stuff out
there and operational.

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:

> No idea where you were at, but lots of big companies have done microwave
> and lots of new companies do microwave.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Communications
>
> MCI was founded as Microwave Communications, Inc. on October 3, 1963 with
> John D. Goeken being named the company's first president. The initial
> business plan was for the company to build a series of microwave relay
> stations between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. The relay
> stations would then be used to interface with limited-range two-way radios
> used by truckers along U.S. Route 66 or by barges on the Illinois Waterway.
>
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Corporation
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> Southern Pacific maintained an extensive microwave communications system
> along its rights-of-way that the railroad used for internal communications.
>
>
> AT&T had a bunch and I think a couple sites are still active:
> http://long-lines.net/
>
> Western Union had a microwave network as well.
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> Lots of companies build microwave for internal communications. Rail and
> utility companies are big here.
>
> All of the cell companies do some microwave in their more rural areas.
>
> Lots of independent ISPs use microwave to build their entire network.
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> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Miles Fidelman" <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2018 9:54:25 AM
> Subject: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I find myself driving down Route 66. On our way through Arizona, I was
> surprised by what look like a lot of old-style microwave links. They
> pretty much follow the East-West rail line - where I'd expect there's a
> lot of fiber buried.
>
> Struck me as somewhat interesting.
>
> It also struck me that folks here might have some comments.
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
> --
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