[25373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Oct 6 17:25:59 1999
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:59:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Majdi Abbas <majdi@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "Matthew D. Lammers" <lammers@zeus.netset.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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I was under the impression that fiber trunks used to be buried (circa 15
years ago) with a copper tracer in them. Then there was some good reason
why they were no longer done that way. Like corrosion or something.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Majdi Abbas wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
