Backhoes and restoration (was: TransAtlantic Cable Break)
Deepak Jain
deepak at ai.net
Fri Jun 22 21:19:23 UTC 2007
> One backhoe hit took out the first half of the cable, but the digger
> realized he goofed and stopped. The fiber company then cut the
> rest of the bundle to cleanly fix the cut... without warning anyone
> who was running on their failover protected circuit that something
> might be about to happen.
>
I've seen this too. Part of a cable is cut, but they need to cut
everything in order to repair the part that's cut.
The good news is that the restoration crew is already on-site when you
report the outage. Uhh.. the bad news, is well, that you are down.
We don't give credit in this forum, but backhoe/turbo-shark operators
are getting smarter about things in the ground, imo. The national
security and litigation/root-cause paperwork are almost as scary as gas
mains nowadays.
Deepak
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