bistro777
Donuts-Is There Anything They Can't Do?
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| A company I once worked for did much the same in compiling a “city build” knowledge base of targeted cities for MAN deployment: carrier hotels/headends/data centers; which carriers had fiber to where and how much; demarc/MPOE/colo data right down to the exact manhole and floor/suite/cage; customer data and bandwidth usage/needs.
Stuff like that was used for determining where the best bang for our bucks could be had. And most of the data was found in the public domain. The “manhole stuff,” of course, came from people like Level(3), MFN, XO, NEON, Flag, etc. that were trying to sell us dark fiber, but most of the rest of the info was compiled simply with some diligent research.
That said, I think none of us want to provide those who wish us ill a blueprint to, say, darken Wall Street. But it is incumbent upon those who build networks to protect them – whether physical security, redundancy in routing and circuits, fail-over plans, etc. To them I say, "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." - Thomas Paine. And to those who would stifle free speech under the argument of "the individual v. the greater good" I say, “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” - Thomas Jefferson. (just my 2 cents' worth). 
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
