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Re: Effects of Cold Front on Internet Infrastructure - U.S. Midwest
From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 09:01:57 -0500
“Sold you fiber , not working fiber” is at the same time amazing lawerying and insanely facepalmy. :) On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:48 Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred () gwi net> wrote:
Cold changes the transmission characteristics of fiber. At one point we were renting some old dark fiber from the local telephone company in northern Maine. When it would get below -15%-degree F the dB would get bad enough that the link using that fiber would stop working. The telephone company was selling us dark fiber because regulation required them to. They refused to give us another fiber nor inspect/repair. They took the position they were required to sell us fiber, not working fiber. On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:41 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:For anyone running IP networks in the Midwest, are you having to do anything special to keep your networks up? For the data centres, is this cold front a chance to reduce air conditioning costs, or is it actually straining the infrastructure? I'm curious, from a +27-degree C summer's day here in Johannesburg. Mark.-- Fletcher Kittredge GWI 207-602-1134 www.gwi.net
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- Re: Effects of Cold Front on Internet Infrastructure - U.S. Midwest Tom Beecher (Feb 01)
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- Re: Effects of Cold Front on Internet Infrastructure - U.S. Midwest Fletcher Kittredge (Feb 01)