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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by tree68</i> <br /><br />The biggest issue facing CSX is probably technological - rehoming their communications to the new DS offices. It not a small, nor simple, task. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I would think the reverse. These days it is commonplace for a mission-critical communications network to have multiple redundant paths from here to there. So they give the 4 (or however many) dispatching centers the ability to access each others' databases and radio base stations. MCI or Sprint will happily provide the datalinks from here to there, it only takes money. <br /> <br />So if a hurricane hits Jax, no problem. You just tell your overworked dispatchers in Albany to handle the load. (You know, the same way that Geordi can run Engineering from the bridge of the Enterprise, like that.) <br /> <br />Oh yeah, then there is the problem of staffing, training, contracts, union agreements, and related nightmares for the additional workload. <br /> <br />No, I don't think technology will be their biggest hurdle. Not by a long shot. <br />
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