[Scan-DC] AT&T Long Lines Tower Site

Shawn [email protected]
Sun, 30 Jun 2002 09:51:03 -0400


All,
Here's the link that I first saw dealing with AT&T Long Lines. 
http://www.drgibson.com/towers/
There is even a link back to Albert's site. :-)
-Shawn


Albert LaFrance wrote:
> 
> Actually, the great common-carrier microwave networks which once spanned the
> country are essentially gone, replaced by fiber optics.  I recall reading
> that about 98-99 percent of AT&T's traffic now travels via fiber, with the
> remaining microwave to be phased out in the next few years.  Most of the
> towers have already been sold.  At one time the AT&T microwave network
> consisted of about 2000 stations, with tens of thousands of individual
> transmitter-receivers.