DC fiber cut: field report
Subodh Nijsure
subodh at best.com
Fri Jul 18 03:28:46 UTC 1997
[ Apologies in advance, this doesn't contribute to official Nanog business,
please direct flame directly to me. ]
>
> After a hot tip on the location of the fiber cut, and with Map Quest in
> hand, we went to search out the location of todays 500+ DS3 DC fiber cut.
>
> We were looking for a bunch of white vans and pick-ups with guys in hard
> hats and orange vests along the train tracks in Northern Laurel, MD - our
> search was fruitfull and within 10 minutes of locating the tracks we
> had found the scene of the cut. It is located off the Baltimore
> Washington Parkway at the Route 32 exit about 1/2 mile from the NSA
> (hmm) along CWX railroad tracks.
>
Does anyone know (in general terms) how the actual spot/vicinity of a fiber
cut like this is located? Or its generally the construction crew calling
the boss and saying, shit, look what we found?
Would appriciate any info.
Thanks.
/Subodh Nijsure (subodh at best.com)
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