MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
Deepak Jain
deepak at ai.net
Wed Oct 6 19:59:22 UTC 1999
I was under the impression that fiber trunks used to be buried (circa 15
years ago) with a copper tracer in them. Then there was some good reason
why they were no longer done that way. Like corrosion or something.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Majdi Abbas wrote:
>
> > In addition to which, fiber doesn't emit a nice electrical signature that
> > can be detected easily, making it hard to avoid. Plastic, glass,
> > fiberglass, kevlar and the other elements of most fiber runs lay invisible
> > to many detection devices that rely upon metals content or electrical
> > impulse emission (crosstalk, noise, EMF...) for detection purposes.
> >
> > Now, some have written that we should encase these things with various
> > high-strength metals. I'm not willing, as an end consumer, to bear the
> > increased overall costs being passed to me, because $VBC laid 10,000 miles
> > (16 000 km) of protectively-encased fiber. Costs would be staggering. In
>
> You wouldn't need to encase it. Bury a little bit of copper with it,
> and blast RF out of it (think of it is a locater service).
>
> --msa
>
>
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