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Re: [PLUG] Verizon FIOS..Any thoughts?
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 12:31:53PM -0400, Douglas Muth wrote:
> >From what I
> >understand from someone who works with Verizon since it is fiber it is
> >run in rings meaning even if a tree knocks out the line service is not
> >interrupted. It is also glass so animals will not chew it.
> >
>
> Never underestimate the power of a backhoe.
So true. The current estimate is that a fiber line is cut every 4 minutes
in this country (source: some book on building mega-networks I got a while
ago).
--
Toby DiPasquale
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