Feasibility of Using Interstate Highway Right-Of-Way To Obtain A More Survivable Fiber-Optics Network

Ron Hess, Bridger M. Mitchell, E. C. River, Don H. Jones, Barry Wolf

ResearchPublished 1988

This report analyzes the legal, institutional, and economic feasibility of a possible solution for hardening the emerging U.S. fiber-optics communications "backbone" against the physical and electronic threats associated with nuclear explosions at no out-of-pocket cost to the government. The proposed solution would exchange access to interstate highway right-of-way, which telephone companies are currently prohibited from using but which is quite attractive to them from the perspective of installation cost savings, for the hardening of fiber-optics systems using such right-of-way.

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  • Year: 1988
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Hess, Ron, Bridger M. Mitchell, E. C. River, Don H. Jones, and Barry Wolf, Feasibility of Using Interstate Highway Right-Of-Way To Obtain A More Survivable Fiber-Optics Network, RAND Corporation, R-3500-DOT/NCS, 1988. As of September 20, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3500.html
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Hess, Ron, Bridger M. Mitchell, E. C. River, Don H. Jones, and Barry Wolf, Feasibility of Using Interstate Highway Right-Of-Way To Obtain A More Survivable Fiber-Optics Network. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1988. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3500.html. Also available in print form.
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