[99450] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Sep 21 21:13:34 2007
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:10:36 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>
Cc: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070921235930.GA14457@typo.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9/22/07, Wayne E. Bouchard <web@typo.org> wrote:
> I realize that it's expensive to run these lines but when you put your
> working and protect in the same cable or different cables in the same
> trench (not even a trench a few feet apart, but the same trench and
> same innerduct), you have to EXPECT that you're gonna have angry
> customers. And yet when telco folks learn that this has occured, they
> often fein being as surprised as the customers.
.. and as long as they are the only telco with copper in the area,
they could care less, I guess?
> jump off his tractor and hit a lever that lowered an auger that sliced
> a fiber-optic line.
ps: That story had a kind of "... that killed the rat that ate the
malt that made the house that jack built" feel to it.
srs
