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Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:51:11 -0400
In a message written on Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:40:31PM -0700, Charles Wyble wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/30/AR2009053002114_pf.html Not sure if I fully believe the article. Responding to a fiber cut in seconds?
Folks who dig call "Miss Utility" (in Virginia, anyway) befor they dig to have folks come out and spray paint where everything is lcoated. On the back end, folks with cables in the ground subscribe to a feed of address information to know if they should go out and mark cables. I have no doubt the men in black SUV's have a feed of this data, and thus know when someone is going to be digging near their cable. Indeed, I can think of at least two instances where I was out surveying fiber digs where black SUV's seemed to be across the street the entire time. With the location having features like a metro tunnel under a US Army "classified" microwave tower it would not surprise me that they have someone in the area watching. I suspect they were waiting nearby, and when it went down went in not to tell folks they cut something, but rather to tell them that they cut nothing. Wink wink. Nudge nudge. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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- Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds? Elmar K. Bins (Jun 02)
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- Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds? Jared Mauch (Jun 02)
- Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds? Charles Wyble (Jun 02)
- RE: Fiber cut - response in seconds? Deepak Jain (Jun 02)
- Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds? Charles Wyble (Jun 02)
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