[10997] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DC fiber cut: field report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Trotter)
Fri Jul 18 08:46:11 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:39:18 -0400
From: Paul Trotter <ptrotter@ny.ubs.com>
To: Subodh Nijsure <subodh@best.com>
CC: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Shoot one of the fibers with a TDR. This will tell you how far away the
break is. The carrier generally has maps of the route and they can pin
point the location within a close enough tolerence to find the break.
We had a break in the street in Manhatten and we told the carrier how
far it was and it only took the a few minutes to locate it.
Paul
Subodh Nijsure wrote:
>
> [ 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)
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