{"id":22761,"date":"2021-04-30T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22761"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T17:12:17","slug":"what-you-gonna-do-when-you-get-out-of-jail-part-395","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22761","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat you gonna do when you get out of jail?\u2026\u201d part 395"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phone Phriday is back!<\/p>\n

I’m kind of fascinated by the idea of disaster recovery. Back in the day when I was a sysadmin, and later when I was doing backup\/recovery support, disaster recovery was a part of my life. These days, other people plan disaster recovery for what I do (and we have a lot of redundancy) but every now and then, I see someone who’s got themselves jammed up…<\/p>\n

What does the phone company do?<\/p>\n

“Operation Desert Switch”. After Gulf War I, Kuwait’s phone system was completely destroyed. AT&T came to Kuwait in early March 1991 to get at least some limited phone service back to the country:<\/p>\n

The company first installed a station in Kuwait City to provide 120 outgoing lines to Kuwaiti citizens, the press, and Operation Desert Storm soldiers. The station was established when a group of AT&T technicians drove from Saudi Arabia and erected a portable satellite ground station overnight. The station, which was the first to link Kuwait to the outside world, soon was handling 10 to 12 thousand calls per day. A more permanent station was established later in 1991, with 720 lines.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n