Comments by "Mike H" (@Mike-H_UK) on "What Do The Giant Antennas Do On One World Trade Center?" video.

I heard from someone at Cisco.(don't know how true this is) that there were some Cisco routers in the basement of one of the original WTC buildings. After the building collapsed, they continued pinging the outside world until the UPS battery became flat and they died. Pretty impressive if correct.
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@nicc5122 Thanks. Yes, I bet the museum is interesting. I last visited NY after the 9/11 attack when it was still being debated what would happen to the site. What you say sounds very reasonable. Interestingly, I was visiting TI in Dallas at the time of the 9/11 attack, and, in the morning, was doing a UK colleague a favour by checking out the feasibility of accessing UK servers from a laptop PC in another continent using ADSL/VPN and performing graphic-intensive chip design. That was fairly new in 2001. Of course, the internet was totally clogged up, and the only phone call that I could make to the UK was on the dedicated company lines, so the experiment was totally inconclusive!! I'll never forget that day!!
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