[119743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber Cut in Italy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Mon Nov 30 02:41:15 2009
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:40:11 +0200
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The first cable cut occurred at 13:43 GMT close to Vernegues-France=20
involving a group of six cables, damaged by an excavator, interrupting the=
=20
service on the segment Marseille-Lyon.
The second cable cut occurred at 14:21 GMT on a highway near to=20
Milano/Bersaglio, about 530km away, interrupting the service on the segment=
=20
Milano-Zurich.
Service was restored at 1:40 GMT the next day.
It just shows that protected fiber rings do have an enemy - and his name is=
=20
Murphy.
-Hank
>TI Sparkle just confirmed they are having a fault.
>
>Email from Telecom Italia Sparkle - Seabone NOC:
>
>Dear
>We have a big fault ( fiber cut) in france 2 cuts and one in milan.
>
>We are working to solve it asap.
>
>Regards
>
>
>=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97- Telecom Italia Sparkle SpA
>Customer Assistance/Assurance I=B0 t Se at bone Network Operations Center=
Via
>M. Palocco, 223 =96 Rome, IT
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Varaillon Jean Christophe [mailto:varaillon at cosmoline.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:05 PM
> > To: nanog at nanog.org
> > Subject: Fiber Cut in Italy
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems that there is a major fiber cut in Italy (not really near=20
> nanog, so
> > just in case...)
> >
> > I was just wondering if anybody has heard of any possible recovery time=
=20
> - as
> > there is none official one yet.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Jean-Christophe VARAILLON
