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Re: Cogent latency / congestion


From: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:17:21 -0400


If someone sabotages a rail to stop a train and the derailment takes out
the fiber that is buried in the right-of-way, is that unintentional
sabotage? At least of the fiber?

That's not sabotage at all.

As it relates to the fiber, its not "deliberately and maliciously destroying [fiber]"... unless the goal was to cause a derailment which hurt the train operator both from the operation of the train and subsequent revenues they might lose from fiber operations along the same
right-of-way -- then *that* would be sabotage.

In the case you outlined above, barring other motivations, the fiber would be "collateral damage".

That said, Cogent's page says nothing about sabotage (status.cogentco.com) and I can't find the reference on teliasonera's page.... Link please?


DJ


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