[99436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Sep 21 15:57:27 2007
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:38:30 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0709211502240.21098@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
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> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5148125.html
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> (AUSTIN) Telephone service was out for seven hours in rural Central
> Texas after bees attacked a construction worker, causing him to jump off
> his tractor and hit a lever that lowered an auger that sliced a
> fiber-optic line.
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>
Is this a 7 hour outage a comment on rural Central Texas availability of
fiber splicers or novel ways fiber gets cut?
Anytime you talk about "rural" I'm impressed with 7 hours, however --
isn't SONET supposed to make this better?
Deepak
