Backhoe season?

Thu Mar 26 21:25:43 UTC 2020

The outages in Texas are not uncommon at all. Its probably the worst vs
other areas of the country.  One other problem area is between Ashburn and
Atlanta.  We have been seeing more underlying LH carrier equipment
failures  vs fiber cuts in the last year.

Erich Kaiser
The Fusion Network
erich at gotfusion.net

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:22 PM Aaron Gould <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> Yeah Darron, we lost some san Antonio connectivity to Houston via dallas
> or somewhere.... twice in the past few days, affecting different things for
> us
>
> -Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darron Legnon [mailto:darron at commZoom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 1:11 PM
> To: Aaron Gould; 'William Herrin'; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: Backhoe season?
>
> I've had contractors for Zayo hitting multiple fiber routes over the past
> 3 months numerous times affecting us, AT&T, CenturyLink, Windstream,
> Fiberlight, etc in south Texas. Actually had one cut yesterday around 3pm
> and lasted till 1am.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Aaron Gould
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 1:03 PM
> To: 'William Herrin' <bill at herrin.us>; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RE: Backhoe season?
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> I heard, and am seeing that construction type jobs don't seem to be
> affected much with the virus shutdown.  I mean I see guys building homes
> and working on roads all around me...  furthermore, we've heard of a couple
> fiber cuts that have brought portions of our network down a couple times in
> the last week or so.
>
> -Aaron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of William Herrin
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:57 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Backhoe season?
>
> Howdy,
>
> With so much work shut down, I'm curious how backhoe season is shaping up
> this year? How do the circuit and fiber outage numbers look?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
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> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/
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