Fiber cut in SF area

Tue Apr 14 00:20:47 UTC 2009

"But that would not be NEBS Complient" -PHB

I have thought of air horns in my colo cage when a tech of mine messes up.  

------Original Message------
From: Nathan Ward
To: nanog list
Subject: Re: Fiber cut in SF area
Sent: Apr 13, 2009 4:55 PM

On 14/04/2009, at 11:35 AM, David Barak wrote:

> In addition, as has been noted, this system wouldn't PREVENT a  
> failure, it would just give you some warning that a failure may be  
> coming, probably by a matter of minutes.

Some statistics about the effectiveness of car alarms and unmonitored  
house alarms would probably be useful here.

Whack a $5 12v horn on it, and my bet is that it'd become a deterrent  
pretty quickly.

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Nathan Ward