Somewhere a Teleco Senior Executive is demanding updates every 8 minutes from an operations team and wondering what the hell was on that 120 count fiber in downtown Baltimore
On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 7:42 PM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: > > On 3/5/22 4:35 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > Since 2008, the Washington-Moscow Direct Communications Link (also > > known as "The Washington-Moscow Hotline") uses redundant circuits of > > two satellite links and a fiber-optic cable. They use commercial > > facilities for at least part of the circuits. > > > > Past accidents have interrupted previous hotline circuits. A Danish > > bulldozer operator once cut the line near Copenhagen. A Finnish farmer > > once plowed it up. A fire in a Baltimore Maryland manhole took it out > > of service temporarily. Yep, even the hotline experienced cable cuts. > > > "You laughed when I told you that backhoes would be the end of mankind". > > Mike > >
