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Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz () wvi com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:37:10 -0700
Deepak Jain wrote:
I'm thinking that getting hit by an auger might put the fiber more into the "mangled" category rather than simply cut.Sean Donelan wrote:http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5148125.html(AUSTIN) Telephone service was out for seven hours in rural Central Texas after bees attacked a construction worker, causing him to jump off his tractor and hit a lever that lowered an auger that sliced a fiber-optic line.Is this a 7 hour outage a comment on rural Central Texas availability of fiber splicers or novel ways fiber gets cut?
Anytime you talk about "rural" I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't SONET supposed to make this better?
SONET... yeah, right. We had a fiber-seeking backhoe take out some fiber in the mid-Willamette Valley recently - it took out long distance for several smaller local phone companies for about that long as well. 911 service for at least some people too. I'm interestedly awaiting the final word on what happened there...
Jeff
Current thread:
- Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Sean Donelan (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Deepak Jain (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Chris Boyd (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Jeff Shultz (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Justin M. Streiner (Sep 21)
- Long-haul protected services: (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage) Deepak Jain (Sep 21)
- RE: Long-haul protected services: (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage) michael.dillon (Sep 23)
- Re: Long-haul protected services: (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage) Bill Stewart (Sep 28)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage David Lesher (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Wayne E. Bouchard (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Deepak Jain (Sep 21)
- Rings done right (was: Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage) John Curran (Sep 24)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Suresh Ramasubramanian (Sep 21)
- RE: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Frank Bulk (Sep 21)
- Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage Deepak Jain (Sep 21)