[83200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in SJ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Sun Aug 7 11:16:35 2005
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:15:34 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
Cc: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>,
"Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>,
<gherbert@kw.retro.com>
In-Reply-To: <BF1A28FC.9C3C6%joe@via.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Joe McGuckin wrote:
>
> On 8/5/05 8:12 PM, "George William Herbert" <gherbert@retro.com> wrote:
>
> > First, an electrical contractor backhoed a large fiber
> > link in downtown San Jose (address deleted due to security
> > concerns) this morning, causing moderate damage.
>
> That's just plain silly. As if we (or even your imagined 'terrorist') don't
> know where the fiber runs around here.
well.. theres lots of ducting going down streets but not that many folks know
which of them are the major cable routes, i think keeping specific detail
discrete is reasonable
in a fire near where i am a couple years ago:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/23/arson_suspected_in_manchester_cable/
it seemed a bit of a coincidence that both the active and protect paths of a
major sdh route got hit in this attack and it took out a lot of long distance
circuits
Steve
