And in an open desert, back hoes can smell fiber from miles away. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Bill Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> That is one long protect path. Yikes. > > There be mountains in the way, with deserts in between, and not a lot > of people to justify diversity or railroads and highways to run it > along. > Not many carriers have more than one fiber route across Arizona and > New Mexico, especially for the newer high-capacity fibers (i.e. built > this millennium, after the financial excesses of the 90s.) > I'm no longer current on what routes are being used by what carriers, > but if you don't have two routes across northern Arizona ( I-10/I-40, > with restoration routes like Barstow->LasVegas->Flagstaff->Phoenix), > then the next alternative is Barstow->LasVegas->SaltLakeCity->Denver, > at which point some carriers have routes down to Phoenix via Tucumcari > or Amarillo, and the rest are going to go through Dallas, and anybody > who doesn't have the LasVegas->SLC route is going to use > Sacramento->SLC->Denver, possibly also including San Jose, depending > on what routes they've got across California. > > So, yeah, instead of the nice short 2200-mile restoration routes you > can use if SF->Seattle fails, cable cuts in the Southwest can be > really long... > -- > ---- > Thanks; Bill > > Note that this isn't my regular email account - It's still experimental so > far. > And Google probably logs and indexes everything you send it. > >
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