[98839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent latency / congestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Aug 20 18:46:18 2007
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:29:02 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: eric@spaethco.com
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <46CA1064.4060203@spaethco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Eric Spaeth wrote:
>
> This appears to be affecting Telia as well. Here was their last update:
>
> "Concerning the cable break near Cleveland we have been informed that
> the cables have been intentionally sabotaged. The provider informed that
> they need to change the whole damaged fibre part and that is 3600 feet.
> Fibre has been ordered and ETA is 1900 UTC. Once the fibre arrives they
> need to blow it into the 3600 feet long duct before the splicing can
> start."
>
Sounds like a DHS/FBI investigation will be starting soon.
Eesh.. if we start having to secure 500,000 route miles of fiber routes
against sabotage, um... well, I guess I'll have to become a fiber
installation contractor. :)
DJ
