[113399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh noes!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Glover)
Fri Apr 10 16:06:22 2009
From: "Robert Glover" <robertg@garlic.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:03:58 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ravi Pina" <ravi@cow.org>
To: "Charles Wyble" <charles@thewybles.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Outside plant protection, fiber cuts, interwebz down oh noes!
>> 2) Why didn't an alarm go off that someone had entered the area? It was
>> after business hours, presumably not in response to a trouble ticket,
>> and as such a highly suspicious action. Does it make sense for these
>> access portals to have some sort of alarm? I mean there is fiber running
>> through and as such it could carry the signaling. Would this be a
>> massive cost addition during construction?
I can comment on this, I live three blocks from the scene of the cut.
The manholes themselves sit along railroad tracks and an overpass. At 2am,
it's a very dark area, and there is very little traffic at that time. It
would be an ideal area to perform this type of vandalism.
On a side note, when I was passing the area this morning at around 10am PDT,
there were two fiber-trailers working in two separate manholes.
My company (AS4307) fell off the map from about 2am until roughly 10:42pm
when one of our upstreams (AS20115) finally came back. Our primary (AS174)
came back about 11:30pm. Of course during the majority of the outage, we
also had no land-lines or cell-phones, so were effectively isolated.
Bobby Glover
Director of Information Services
South Valley Internet
