[114984] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shane Ronan)
Tue Jun 2 10:51:01 2009
From: Shane Ronan <sronan@fattoc.com>
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A253AD8.8020209@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:50:48 -0400
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In my experience they are required not only to mark the line, but to
identify it with the initials of the owner.
On Jun 2, 2009, at 10:44 AM, JC Dill wrote:
> Elmar K. Bins wrote:
>> jcdill.lists@gmail.com (JC Dill) wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Why do they "watch" and "monitor" rather than proactively go out
>>> and say "watch out, there's an unmarked cable here" and keep them
>>> from cutting the cable in the first place?
>>>
>>
>> *snicker*
>>
>> You ever been to a construction site?
>>
> Yes. We have a number here to call "Before You Dig" and they send
> people out to mark where underground utilities are. It would be
> trivially easy for one more set of jump-suited and hard-hat-wearing
> people to show up during this phase of the project and mark one more
> line. For the most part the construction teams don't know and don't
> care who is marking the lines or who is responsible for each, they
> just want the lines marked (location and type of line - gas,
> electric, telco) so they can avoid cutting them. In this way the
> marking team would be "undercover" and the previously unmarked/
> unmapped line would be No Big Deal. When an unmarked line is cut
> and black SUVs show up (the opposite of "undercover"), the line
> becomes A Big Deal which is the opposite of what is intended.
>
> jc
>
>
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