[194825] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Jun 2 14:40:44 2017
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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
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To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:40:35 -0400
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On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 13:23:26 -0400, Christopher Morrow said:
> is this a case of 'wherer the cable gets dry' vs 'where the electronics=
> doing cable things lives' ?
> aren't (normally) the dry equipment locations a bit inland and then hav=
e
> last-mile services from the consortium members headed inland to their
> respective network pops?
Well, I'd be willing to buy that logic, except the specific buildings cal=
led
out look pretty damned big for just drying off a cable. For example, thi=
s
is claimed to be the US landing point for TAT-14 - looks around 4K square=
feet?
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/tuckerton-cable-landing-station/view/=
google/
Though I admit I'm foggy on how much gear is needed to stuff however many=
amps
at 4,000 volts down the cable core to power the repeaters. But again - i=
f
there's gear stuffing that many amps at that many volts down a cable, sal=
t
water could be the start of a bad day...
(And note - I'm not saying that *everybody* who built a cable landing sta=
tion
managed to get it wrong. I'm saying that with the number of landing stat=
ions
in existence, the chance that *somebody* got it wrong is probably scarily=
high.
Telco and internet experiences in New Orleans during Katrina and NYC duri=
ng
Sandy suggest there's a lot of infrastructure built with =22we never had =
storm
surge in this building before so it can't happen=22 planning....)
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