Re: Cogent latency / congestion

["Kevin Oberman" <oberman () es net>]

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

Too many people missed the emoticon. Clearly the fiber damage in the
case I gave was collateral damage. It would have been sabotage on the
rail line and the derailed train.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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