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Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Jun 1 18:47:32 2009

Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:46:30 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A2458DF.1090101@thewybles.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

It's pretty trivial if know where all the construction projects on your
path are...

I've seen this happen on a university campus several times. no black
helicopters were involved.

joel

Charles Wyble wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/30/AR2009053002114_pf.html
> 
> 
> Not sure if I fully believe the article. Responding to a fiber cut in
> seconds?
> 
> I suppose it's possible if $TLA had people monitoring the construction
> from across the street, and they were in communication with the NOC.
> 


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