Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

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Sean Donelan wrote:
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> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5148125.html
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> (AUSTIN) Telephone service was out for seven hours in rural Central 
> Texas after bees attacked a construction worker, causing him to jump off 
> his tractor and hit a lever that lowered an auger that sliced a 
> fiber-optic line.
> 
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Is this a 7 hour outage a comment on rural Central Texas availability of 
fiber splicers or novel ways fiber gets cut?

Anytime you talk about "rural" I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- 
isn't SONET supposed to make this better?

Deepak

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