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Re: Fiber versus 24inch water main

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron Buchalski)
Sun Dec 26 11:14:12 1999

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From: "Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@hotmail.com>
To: sean@donelan.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 08:12:25 PST
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>From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
>To: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: Fiber versus 24inch water main
>Date: 24 Dec 1999 17:52:31 -0800
>
>
>On Thursday traffic was backed up around my house.  A contractor installing
>fiber along the highway bored through a 24inch water main.  You can see
>the results in this picture.
>
>http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/049A42145BD8D1F88625685100403623
>
>
>

Cool picture.  It's too bad that we couldn't get a comparable picture of 
data bits spewing into the air when a fiber is cut!  ;-)

-rb

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