[RTC List] [2] AT&T DSL Outage?

[CrawfordCA at aol.com]

The fiber connection was lost today. The airport (where I was flying out to  
Baltimore) was issuing hand written boarding passes and luggage routing slips. 
 Cell phones couldn't reach outside the area and most lines when I tried to 
call  in from SFO connect to a recording announcing "technical difficulties." 
Oddly,  one or two lines into the area actually worked.
 
Let's use this as a rallying cry to accelerate redundant fiber. This is NOT  
an option. Hughstat, satellite, dial-up and other back-ups cannot sustain  the 
whole community. This is serious stuff. Thank goodness the airport learned a  
few manual workarounds this time or else connection to air traffic and 
weather  would have grounded all flights. Our hospitals, first responders and a lot 
more  rely on connectivity to operate.
 
Let's "git 'er done."
 
Chris Crawford
_www.justiceserved.com_ (http://www.justiceserved.com) 
 
 
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In a message dated 10/9/2007 1:27:38 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
jspeaker at streamguys.com writes:

Hughsat  is keeping our team working. Strongly suggest it as a stopgap for
those  companies that need to stay up for their clients outside the area, or
here  locally.

-jonathan 



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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:11 PM
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Subject: [RTC List] AT&T DSL  Outage?

AT&T DSL service has been out in Cutten since approximately  9 a.m.  
this morning. I'm using AT&T's backup dialup service to  post this, so POTS
is still working. Anyone else lose DSL this  morning?

Jim Scott







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