Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State | Washington Free Beacon

[Louis Mamakos]

Many years ago while at UUNET, we had an Internet POP in Phoenix, and there are diverse fiber routes available.  I can't recall what the routes were at the time.  However if you look at, e.g., www.zayo.com you can trivially see that there are two routes that one carrier has available, East/West along I-10 in and out of Phoenix.  Possibly there are others available on different operators.

Phoenix is a large enough market that it wouldn't be "stubbed" off the edge of a network.  Even when a single path is available, you'll often see diverse cable runs on opposite sides of a highway or rail right-of-way.  Of course, this isn't foolproof, as famously demonstrated by the fire in a railway tunnel under Baltimore, that got both fiber runs down each side of the tunnel.  Oh well.

louie
wa3ymh


> On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:40 PM, Tom Azlin W7SUA <tom at nilza.org> wrote:
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> From Phoenix north to I-40 it is the mountain ranges that divide the low desert from the high desert of the rocky mountain plateau that cause even more problems finding cable routes other than up the valleys! Where they also put roads. One direct route here, a second longer and windy road and then a couple big out of the way loops to get here. I am hoping that they drop service down to this area from some where else.
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> 73, tom w7sua
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> On 3/1/2015 6:57 PM, William Fenn wrote:
>> Louie,
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>> I doubt you have ever been to Arizona and have any idea of what the terrain
>> is like.  There is lots of dry land that some call a desert out there and
>> this limits many options on how to route things.
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>> N4TS
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