[89561] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Sat Mar 25 17:09:36 2006
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:38:59 +0930
From: Mark Smith <random@72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0603231825390.19650@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
n Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:32:13 -0500 (EST)
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
>
> http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=463928&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=3/23/2006
> A fire Tuesday that tore through a popular bakery in Cohoes left 70,000
> Time Warner Cable subscribers without TV service. Some who also rely on
> the cable company for their high-speed Internet or telephone found all
> three out of commission.
>
> In the pictures, it appears electric, telephone and cable lines were all
> on the utility poles damaged by the fire. I'm not sure why time-warner
> cable had the brunt of the outages in the newspaper reports. It may have
> just been bad luck on which company's lines got baked (sorry, more bad
> puns).
>
A few years back there was a photo floating around of a fibre that had
been destroyed by a stray bullet. Does anybody know of it, or have a
copy ?
Thanks,
Mark.
--
"Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly
alert."
- Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
