[114968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Wyble)
Mon Jun 1 20:17:18 2009
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:17:08 -0700
From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <C649D736.1B6868%dave.nanog@alfordmedia.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I do feel this might be the last post from Mr Pooser. :)
Your on to them it seems. ;)
A very interesting idea. I imagine it wouldn't be hard for foreign
actors to get access to the data feed of construction, observe for signs
of a cut and then splice in a tap.
Though wouldn't that tap be found via the real response team?
Dave Pooser wrote:
>> Right. So why the "near instant" response time. If it's a diverse path,
>> one would imagine that they could respond in a few hours or a day and
>> not have any impact.
>
> Just a guess, but: A cut cable is one thing. A cut cable in which people
> wearing different suits and driving a different brand of SUV might splice in
> a fiber tap is something altogether different.
