[10998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Trotter)
Fri Jul 18 08:48:44 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:31:59 -0400
From: Paul Trotter <ptrotter@ny.ubs.com>
To: perry@piermont.com
CC: yone@wolfenet.com, nanog@merit.edu
I did have a fiber break in the street Manhatten due to a "steam leak".
Took out 48 strands.
Paul
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> Scott Yoneyama writes:
> > that took out the entire northwest for 8 hours. The guy was 600 yards
> > away from where his permit allowed him to dig. He stopped when he cut
> > the fiber and shut his hoe down. When they got out there, they found
> > that he was digging right next to train tracks, was inches from cutting
> > a high voltage power line that surely would have killed him, and was
> > also fairly close to a gas line.
>
> Here in Manhattan, we don't get lines cut by digging, for obvious
> reasons.
>
> On the other hand, most places don't have to worry about cladding
> fiber to resist rats...
>
> Perry
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