[89563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Sat Mar 25 18:53:42 2006
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:53:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
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
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> 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).
... why is a backbone circuit is unprotected? there shouldnt have been an outage
Steve
