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Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage


From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:49:22 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Deepak Jain wrote:

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?

Sure, if:
1. the protect path is configured and enabled
2. both the working and protect paths don't run through the same conduit/duct/buffer

jms


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