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Re: OUTAGE: gopher eats fiber

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Tue Aug 25 17:52:04 1998

Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:32:33 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@neworks.net>
In-Reply-To: <980822233850.aa52@SDG.DRA.COM>

At 11:38 PM 8/22/98 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Today's fiber cut --- In USWEST territory a gopher chewed through a
>fiber cable near Portales, New Mexico.  Service to 6,000 customers
>including long distance, 9-1-1 and two airports was disrupted.  Airport
>service has been restored.

gee, and here everyone thought that only NYC needed to use armored fiber...

richard

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