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RE: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest
From: "Douglas S. Peeples" <dpeeples () talabs com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:15:11 -0500
What you describe is a folded ring and is indicative of either a temporary solution or bad network design. As a rule, phone companies and capacity suppliers build very robust systems. Douglas S. Peeples Technology Assurance Labs -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Brian Bruns Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:39 AM To: Henry Linneweh; Vincent J. Bono; nanog () merit edu Cc: Sean Donelan Subject: Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest ----- Original Message ----- From: Henry Linneweh To: Vincent J. Bono ; nanog () merit edu Cc: Sean Donelan Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 6:02 AM Subject: Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest
Not having seen the entire cut, I would have to imagin the entire bundle
was
cut and the poor splicers had their hands full.
From experience, I can say that its quite easy to sabatoge a fiber run.
The perfect example - a few years ago when I was a network admin, the whole NOC where the bulk of our T1s were went out suddenly one morning. We discovered that less then a block away a fiber seeking backhoe dug right through the fibers - both the primary *and* secondary fibers - because Verizon burried them both in the same trench rather then run them separate routes. So, the supposed redundancy went right out the window. The phone companies really aren't helping the situation one bit by doing stuff like this. -------------------------- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.sosdg.org The AHBL - http://www.ahbl.org
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- Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest Henry Linneweh (Nov 03)
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