Fiber cut in SJ

Sun Aug 7 15:15:34 UTC 2005

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Joe McGuckin wrote:

> 
> On 8/5/05 8:12 PM, "George William Herbert" <gherbert at retro.com> wrote:
> 
> > First, an electrical contractor backhoed a large fiber
> > link in downtown San Jose (address deleted due to security
> > concerns) this morning, causing moderate damage.
> 
> That's just plain silly. As if we (or even your imagined 'terrorist') don't
> know where the fiber runs around here.

well.. theres lots of ducting going down streets but not that many folks know 
which of them are the major cable routes, i think keeping specific detail 
discrete is reasonable

in a fire near where i am a couple years ago:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/23/arson_suspected_in_manchester_cable/

it seemed a bit of a coincidence that both the active and protect paths of a 
major sdh route got hit in this attack and it took out a lot of long distance 
circuits

Steve