[Warren_Piece]

What the heck are they talking about on FOX? That doesn't sound right about the BellSouth building. One switching station shouldn't know down the whole system. That doesn't make sense to me. Can some telecom Freepers help me out with his?

[nuclady]

Don't know, but I heard that also. They said that if the fire dept. didn't get water to the chillers at Bell South, the whole southeastern part of the US would go down. Jus what we need!

[A. Morgan]

Chillers are part of the air conditioning system needed to keep the telephone equipment cool. The chillers are hooked up to water lines.

[misharu]

It all depends on whether the POP was the main one in town. The reason everything was lost in Manhattan during 9/11 was because the towers had something like 3 or 4 SS7's (LOTSA bandwidth!) going into the them. In essence, all the eggs were in one basket. It did not help that several CO's (switching stations) were also damaged.

As for just the one causing all the problems, I can't say. But if it was the major CO, then its possible.