There was a great SHARE presentation in early nineties of one site that built a data center a few miles across the valley with their own fiber only to have the highway department come along and blew off a section for road widening. They had to pull across old train trestles and abandoned mines to get back in service. Great pictures of guys repelling on the trestles. After all they were an 'optics' company.
In a message dated 10/09/13 16:56:05 Central Daylight Time, jo.skip.robin...@sce.com writes: There are too many environmental vagaries out there when you depend utterly on miles of fiber that you cannot control. Meanwhile the consequences of disrupted sysplex communication are too grave, including wait stating the entire sysplex. Too great a price to pay for whatever advantage you're reaching for. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
