BOMA honors Verizon for actions taken on Sept. 11. (Transcripts).Falling beams of steel from the World Trade Center fires may have gouged a gaping multi-story hole into the front of Verizon's West Street facility, sliced into underground sidewalk vaults, and severed sev·er v. sev·ered, sev·er·ing, sev·ers v.tr. 1. To set or keep apart; divide or separate. 2. To cut off (a part) from a whole. 3. the cables for New York's communications systems, but the disconnect was only temporary, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Verizon's group president for New York/Connecticut Paul Crotty, who spoke at the June BOMA/NY luncheon. The most communications-intensive piece of real estate in the world now boasts the most advanced cellular/satellite system in the world, a result of decisions made shortly after assessing the damage of 9-11. Since the entire infrastructure needed to be replaced, Verizon decided to go with the most advanced system possible, with cellular service being replaced in 10 days. Five thousand employees working around the clock brought the city back on line. Previous disaster planning disaster planning - disaster recovery and built-in redundancy allowed for one of the first key moves, which was switching as many lines as possible to! the Bridge Street facility in Brooklyn. But getting to the damaged equipment would require, at minimum, 10 days. That was unacceptable, Crotty declared, so a solution was devised to run thousands of yards of cable above ground and over the streets in temporary housings. Crotty credit that type of ingenuity (and an emergency plan previously developed with the NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) with getting more than 300,000 voice lines and 4.4 million data service lines up and running quickly. The first priority was restoring phones for all emergency service workers. The New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. was second in line and restored ahead of schedule, and the third priority was the tiered ranks of service customers. Crotty feels that the new network is "a reason to come back to lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North . Service has stabilized, system quality has been enhanced. Systems are faster and primed to handle future growth." Crotty also credited Con Ed for its rapid recovery of power, which together with voice and data. In addition, he thanked BOMA/NY for its help in recovery efforts. "I must say that the men and women of BOMA/NY did a terrific, unheralded job," he said. "We hear reports about the Stock Exchange getting up and running by Friday of that terrible week, but first, the building had to be up and running. No one does that other than the building manager, and the building management professionals of this City were right behind every emergency service worker putting the City to rights. They are an outstanding example of why we will make New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of a better place." |
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