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Re: Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sat Mar 25 20:01:04 2006

Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:00:26 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Once upon a time, Mark Smith <random@72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org> said:
> 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 ?

When we used to do some cable modem access with one of the local cable
companies, it went down overnight one night.  The cable company tracked
it down to the cable being shot off the pole in two places.

We didn't get any pictures though.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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