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Backhoes and restoration (was: TransAtlantic Cable Break)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:19:23 -0400
One backhoe hit took out the first half of the cable, but the digger realized he goofed and stopped. The fiber company then cut the rest of the bundle to cleanly fix the cut... without warning anyone who was running on their failover protected circuit that something might be about to happen.
I've seen this too. Part of a cable is cut, but they need to cut everything in order to repair the part that's cut.
The good news is that the restoration crew is already on-site when you report the outage. Uhh.. the bad news, is well, that you are down.
We don't give credit in this forum, but backhoe/turbo-shark operators are getting smarter about things in the ground, imo. The national security and litigation/root-cause paperwork are almost as scary as gas mains nowadays.
Deepak
Current thread:
- Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break, (continued)
- Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break Robert Blayzor (Jun 24)
- Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break Chris L. Morrow (Jun 24)
- Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break Sean Donelan (Jun 25)
- Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break Christian Kuhtz (Jun 25)
- Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break Deepak Jain (Jun 26)
- Re: TransAtlantic Cable Break Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 24)
- RE: TransAtlantic Cable Break Roderick S. Beck (Jun 22)
- RE: TransAtlantic Cable Break Chris L. Morrow (Jun 22)
- Backhoes and restoration (was: TransAtlantic Cable Break) Deepak Jain (Jun 22)