[114991] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fiber cut - response in seconds?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Jun 2 13:22:00 2009
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Dave Wilson <richard.wilson@senokian.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:21:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4A252007.4070809@senokian.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> No. And here's why: If you're a naughty foreign intelligence team, and
> you know your stuff, you already know where some of the cables you'd
> really like a tap on are buried. When you hear of a construction
> project
> that might damage one, you set up your innocuous white panel truck
> somewhere else, near a suitable manhole. When the construction guy with
> a backhoe chops the cable (and you may well slip him some money to do
> so), *then* you put your tap in, elsewhere, with your actions covered
> by
> the downtime at the construction site. That's why the guys in the SUVs
> are in such a hurry, because they want to close the window of time in
> which someone can be tapping the cable elsewhere.
>=20
> At least that's what I heard. I read it somewhere on the internet.
> Definitely. Not at all a sneaky person. No sir.
And if you were a naughty foreign intelligence team installing a tap, or a =
bend, or whatever in the fiber contemporaneously with a known cut, you coul=
d also reamplify and dispersion compensate for the slight amount of affect =
your work is having so that when its tested later, the OTDR is blind to you=
r work.
Ah, the fun of Paranoia, Inc.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
