[97563] in North American Network Operators' Group
Backhoes and restoration (was: TransAtlantic Cable Break)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Jun 22 17:21:50 2007
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:19:23 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
gherbert@kw.retro.com
In-Reply-To: <200706221855.l5MItDSO025788@kw.retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> One backhoe hit took out the first half of the cable, but the digger
> realized he goofed and stopped. The fiber company then cut the
> rest of the bundle to cleanly fix the cut... without warning anyone
> who was running on their failover protected circuit that something
> might be about to happen.
>
I've seen this too. Part of a cable is cut, but they need to cut
everything in order to repair the part that's cut.
The good news is that the restoration crew is already on-site when you
report the outage. Uhh.. the bad news, is well, that you are down.
We don't give credit in this forum, but backhoe/turbo-shark operators
are getting smarter about things in the ground, imo. The national
security and litigation/root-cause paperwork are almost as scary as gas
mains nowadays.
Deepak
