[129845] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: US hunters shoot down Google fibre
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Snyder)
Tue Sep 21 11:37:55 2010
From: Todd Snyder <tsnyder@rim.com>
To: Leslie <leslie@craigslist.org>, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:33:34 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4C98CF4D.9030801@craigslist.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
"Fiber Week"?
-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie [mailto:leslie@craigslist.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:29 AM
To: Christopher Morrow
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: US hunters shoot down Google fibre
Hunters, backhoes, and ship anchors are all fiber's natural enemies -
I'm surprised Discovery Channel hasn't done a special on it!
On 9/21/10 6:19 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> this was presented at the nanog in ... SF I think as well:
> <http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/abstracts.php?pt=3DMTU5NSZuYW5vZzQ5=
&nm=3Dnanog49>
>
> not really news...
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Eugen Leitl<eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/232831,us-hunters-shoot-down-google-fibre.a=
spx
>>
>> Repairers forced to ski in to Oregon back woods.
>>
>> Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon=
were
>> "regularly" shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables
>> underground.
>>
>> The search and advertising giant's network engineering manager Vijay Gill
>> told the AusNOG conference in Sydney last week that people were trying to=
hit
>> insulators on electricity distribution poles.
>>
>> The poles also hosted aerially-deployed fibre connected to Google's $US60=
0
>> million ($A635 million) data centre in the Dalles, a small city on the
>> Columbia River in the US state of Oregon.
>>
>> "What people do for sport or because they're bored, they try to shoot at=
the
>> insulators," Gill said.
>>
>> "I have yet to see them actually hit the insulator, but they regularly sh=
oot
>> down the fibre.
>>
>> "Every November when hunting season starts invariably we know that the fi=
bre
>> will be shot down, so much so that we are now building an underground pat=
h
>> [for it]."
>>
>> Gill said that on one occasion, a snowstorm and avalanche prevented Googl=
e
>> from transporting repairers and gear into the area of the cut.
>>
>> It usually used a helicopter or a Caterpillar D9 tractor for transport. I=
t
>> improvised by sending three technicians on skis to "repair the fibre that=
got
>> shot down".
>>
>> "These guys had to cross country ski for three days," Gill said.
>>
>> "[One guy] is carrying what is known as a fusion splicing kit on his
>> backpack."
>>
>> He joked: "These guys had to go in and fix the fibre while facing gunshot=
s
>>
>> "So [the] internet... [it's] more dangerous than you realise."
>>
>>
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