Also worth mentioning that AT&T Canada originated with the Canadian Pacific Railway...
CP Railway and Unitel --> AT&T Canada --> Allstream --> MTS-Allstream --> Zayo I have a GIS dataset with about 90% of the most important hilltop and mountaintop tower sites in WA, BC, OR and ID. There is a ton of stuff out there and operational. On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > No idea where you were at, but lots of big companies have done microwave > and lots of new companies do microwave. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Communications > > MCI was founded as Microwave Communications, Inc. on October 3, 1963 with > John D. Goeken being named the company's first president. The initial > business plan was for the company to build a series of microwave relay > stations between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri. The relay > stations would then be used to interface with limited-range two-way radios > used by truckers along U.S. Route 66 or by barges on the Illinois Waterway. > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Corporation > > Southern Pacific maintained an extensive microwave communications system > along its rights-of-way that the railroad used for internal communications. > > > AT&T had a bunch and I think a couple sites are still active: > http://long-lines.net/ > > Western Union had a microwave network as well. > > > > > Lots of companies build microwave for internal communications. Rail and > utility companies are big here. > > All of the cell companies do some microwave in their more rural areas. > > Lots of independent ISPs use microwave to build their entire network. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > Midwest-IX > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Miles Fidelman" <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2018 9:54:25 AM > Subject: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers > > Hi Folks, > > I find myself driving down Route 66. On our way through Arizona, I was > surprised by what look like a lot of old-style microwave links. They > pretty much follow the East-West rail line - where I'd expect there's a > lot of fiber buried. > > Struck me as somewhat interesting. > > It also struck me that folks here might have some comments. > > Miles Fidelman > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > >
