At 05:14 PM 3/29/2002 -0000, Rich C wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Jerry Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "GNHLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 10:00 PM >Subject: Re: Internet Shutdown > > >> It seems that a bunch of '1' bits have gotten stuck >> sideways in the fiber over the years and is really causing a backup >> of data flow along major trunk lines. > >Um, excuse me, but there are no "1" and "0" bits in fiber optic cable. >There are only "light" and "dark" bits. The fiber optic transceivers >must make the translation. And I heard it was dark bits that were stuck >in the cables. I also heard a team of Qwest engineers were going to ride >the lines looking for these stuck dark bits. > >Rich Cloutier
I thought the "dark bits" only traveled over "dark fiber" ? or was that "dark matter" ? -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Email may contain words incorrectly generated by Speech Recognition software. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" copyright 1997-2002. Use restricted to non-UCE uses. Any other use is an acceptance of the offer at www.ultranet.com/~jkinz/policy.html. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
