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I did have a fiber break in the street Manhatten due to a "steam leak". Took out 48 strands. Paul Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > Scott Yoneyama writes: > > that took out the entire northwest for 8 hours. The guy was 600 yards > > away from where his permit allowed him to dig. He stopped when he cut > > the fiber and shut his hoe down. When they got out there, they found > > that he was digging right next to train tracks, was inches from cutting > > a high voltage power line that surely would have killed him, and was > > also fairly close to a gas line. > > Here in Manhattan, we don't get lines cut by digging, for obvious > reasons. > > On the other hand, most places don't have to worry about cladding > fiber to resist rats... > > Perry -- |-------------------------------------------------------| Paul Trotter 299 Park Avenue Network Architect New York, New York 10171 Union Bank of Switzerland phone: (212) 821-6252 [email protected] fax: (212) 821-5877
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