[25366] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi Abbas)
Wed Oct 6 15:25:02 1999
From: Majdi Abbas <majdi@puck.nether.net>
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In-Reply-To: <199910061707.NAA19461@zeus.netset.com> from "Matthew D. Lammers" at "Oct 6, 99 01:07:49 pm"
To: lammers@zeus.netset.com (Matthew D. Lammers)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:19:24 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> In addition to which, fiber doesn't emit a nice electrical signature that
> can be detected easily, making it hard to avoid. Plastic, glass,
> fiberglass, kevlar and the other elements of most fiber runs lay invisible
> to many detection devices that rely upon metals content or electrical
> impulse emission (crosstalk, noise, EMF...) for detection purposes.
>
> Now, some have written that we should encase these things with various
> high-strength metals. I'm not willing, as an end consumer, to bear the
> increased overall costs being passed to me, because $VBC laid 10,000 miles
> (16 000 km) of protectively-encased fiber. Costs would be staggering. In
You wouldn't need to encase it. Bury a little bit of copper with it,
and blast RF out of it (think of it is a locater service).
--msa
