Phil Kane wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:57:04 GMT, Dave Heil wrote:

Hi! I'm sure the Chase and Bank One have switched over to digital
HF
networks moving their financial data around.

You think so? I don't. I'm guessing that their data moves via
phone
lines. If the phone lines aren't there, it'll move when there are
phone
lines.

My guess is that their mainframe stuff uses buried fiber optic
circuits. In 1988 I got the nickel tour of the then-new Union
Pacific Railroad Control Center in Omaha. The Comm chief actually
showed me where two circuits emerged on two sides of the building,
one running via St. Louis and the other running via Kansas City.
In
vital data circuits, redundancy is the name of the game.
But Dave says they're likely to fail.