Posted on 06/28/2005 8:53:42 AM PDT by Altair333
But...but...how will I be able to reach those outsourced customer support centers?
Naw, we have at least triple redundancy. And Pakistani based al-Queda couldn’t possibly hit 3 or more targets at once,… could they?
I wonder what "trials" they have been out on since Feb?
I warned them not to go with A O L.
Read it a few years ago. Indeed an excellent book.
SAS ON ALERT FOR OSAMA SWOOP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1432398/posts
There is a thread on an OBL alert today. I will try and find it.
LOL, I just barely beat you to it.
It won't be long before the cables are obsolete anyway.
LOL good one
I was involved in some of the pre-lay work for this noodle. It is a new one, called SEA-ME-WE 4, just laid in early '05 for ALCATEL.
I am, further, aware of a commercial US flag spook ship that was installing seabed sensors in the Strait of Hormuz a couple of months past. Reckon there might be any connection?
I was wondering about that. Thanks for the info.
As you know, fiber does not just "break". Nothing in the cable to corrode, nothing to go wrong, really. I have actually never heard of a fiber failing without some "outside force" acting upon it, like a backhoe or a truck taking out a pole or ped.
I am not saying that a fresh cable might not have a defect that might be the cause, just that I have never seen it.
Replaced by what?
radio towers and satellites.
No chance of that. Nothing else has, and nothing in the pipe will have, the capacity and reliability of fibre.
Bump
That may be true, but wireless is nevertheless taking over.
Wireless is very short range, a few metres only. You can have 7, 70, 700, 7 000, or 700 000 people operating on wireless connections, but they are all funneled into fibre for the long haul.
Then you know something that I don't
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