[11056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DC fiber cut: field report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bigfoot@shell.stomped.com)
Fri Jul 18 18:57:00 1997
From: bigfoot@shell.stomped.com
To: jamie@comet.net (jamie)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:44:46 +0000
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970718172500.21217A-100000@atlas.comet.net>
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:31:32 -0400 (EDT)
> From: jamie@comet.net (jamie)
> To: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: DC fiber cut: field report
> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Stephen Balbach wrote:
>
> ->As we left it struck me that this cut was not if, but when. And more cuts
> ->like it. There was no protection for the cable, no markers of the cable
> ->location.
>
They're giving such more service that they are affraid of vandilism of the
lines if they show people where they are?
> The no markers part baffles me. Engineers of yore are surely turning in
> their graves.
> I wonder how many of the cuts (including the 2? 3? today [Fri]) are
> due to lack of markings? And why no markings? My speculation is that
> the suits have short-term-profit tunnel vision, and decided to bag them
> in the name of the bottom line, but if anyone has other ideas, I'd be
> interested in hearing them.
> Stephen, the first sentence in your quoted portion is prescient in light
> of today's events.
> jamie jamie@comet.net
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