Re: Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:

> http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=463928&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=3/23/2006
>   A fire Tuesday that tore through a popular bakery in Cohoes left 70,000
>   Time Warner Cable subscribers without TV service. Some who also rely on
>   the cable company for their high-speed Internet or telephone found all
>   three out of commission.
>
> In the pictures, it appears electric, telephone and cable lines were all
> on the utility poles damaged by the fire.  I'm not sure why time-warner
> cable had the brunt of the outages in the newspaper reports.  It may have
> just been bad luck on which company's lines got baked (sorry, more bad
> puns).

... why is a backbone circuit is unprotected? there shouldnt have been an outage

Steve