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The Telecom Digest for May 5, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 74 : "text" Format
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FT systems (David Lesher)
In Surveillance Debate, White House Turns Its Focus to Silicon Valley (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 01:25:38 +0000 (UTC)
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: FT systems 
Message-ID: <lk6pai$72h$1@reader1.panix.com>

I'm seeking data on early AT&T fiber systems aka Lightwave.

I know FT3 was 90.524 Mbps, and needed regenerators every 4-5
miles.  I'm interested in a FT7 installation, circa 1987.  How
frequently would it have needed regenerators, and what kind of
bit rates would it have had?

Further, was FT3 multimode glass usable on FT7? I can't find
much on the fiber used; and wonder how long it was usable with
upgraded equipment.

When did the OC hierarchy take over?
-- 
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433




Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 17:08:56 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: In Surveillance Debate, White House Turns Its Focus to Silicon  Valley
Message-ID: <p0624080bcf8c5c7a7cec@[10.0.1.3]>

In Surveillance Debate, White House Turns Its Focus to Silicon Valley

By DAVID E. SANGER
MAY 2, 2014

WASHINGTON - Nearly a year after the first disclosures about the 
National Security Agency's surveillance practices at home and abroad, 
the agency is emerging with mandates to make only modest changes: 
some new limits on what kind of data about Americans it can hold, and 
White House oversight of which foreign leaders' cellphones it can tap 
and when it can conduct cyberoperations against adversaries.

The big question now is whether Silicon Valley will get off as 
easily. It was the subject of a new White House report about how 
technology and the crunching of big data about the lives of Americans 
- from which websites they visit to where they drive their newly 
networked cars - are enlarging the problem.

At their core, the questions about the N.S.A. are strikingly similar 
to those about how Google, Yahoo, Facebook and thousands of 
application makers crunch their numbers. The difference is over the 
question of how far the government will go to restrain the growth of 
its own post-Sept. 11 abilities, and whether it will decide the time 
has come to intrude on what private industry collects, in the name of 
protecting privacy or preventing new forms of discrimination.

President Obama alluded to that at the White House on Friday, when he 
was forced to take up the issue at a news conference with one of the 
N.S.A.'s most prominent targets: Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, 
who said she was still not satisfied with America's responses to the 
revelations that her phone - and her country - were under blanket 
surveillance for a dozen years.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/us/politics/white-house-shifts-surveillance-debate-to-private-sector.html






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