[10987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DC fiber cut: field report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Subodh Nijsure)
Thu Jul 17 23:38:09 1997
From: Subodh Nijsure <subodh@best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970717181139.6795X-100000@bisco.clark.net> from Stephen Balbach at "Jul 17, 97 06:35:36 pm"
To: stephen@clark.net (Stephen Balbach)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 20:28:46 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
[ Apologies in advance, this doesn't contribute to official Nanog business,
please direct flame directly to me. ]
>
> After a hot tip on the location of the fiber cut, and with Map Quest in
> hand, we went to search out the location of todays 500+ DS3 DC fiber cut.
>
> We were looking for a bunch of white vans and pick-ups with guys in hard
> hats and orange vests along the train tracks in Northern Laurel, MD - our
> search was fruitfull and within 10 minutes of locating the tracks we
> had found the scene of the cut. It is located off the Baltimore
> Washington Parkway at the Route 32 exit about 1/2 mile from the NSA
> (hmm) along CWX railroad tracks.
>
Does anyone know (in general terms) how the actual spot/vicinity of a fiber
cut like this is located? Or its generally the construction crew calling
the boss and saying, shit, look what we found?
Would appriciate any info.
Thanks.
/Subodh Nijsure (subodh@best.com)
