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Shoot one of the fibers with a TDR. This will tell you how far away the break is. The carrier generally has maps of the route and they can pin point the location within a close enough tolerence to find the break. We had a break in the street in Manhatten and we told the carrier how far it was and it only took the a few minutes to locate it. Paul Subodh Nijsure wrote: > > [ Apologies in advance, this doesn't contribute to official Nanog business, > please direct flame directly to me. ] > > > > After a hot tip on the location of the fiber cut, and with Map Quest in > > hand, we went to search out the location of todays 500+ DS3 DC fiber cut. > > > > We were looking for a bunch of white vans and pick-ups with guys in hard > > hats and orange vests along the train tracks in Northern Laurel, MD - our > > search was fruitfull and within 10 minutes of locating the tracks we > > had found the scene of the cut. It is located off the Baltimore > > Washington Parkway at the Route 32 exit about 1/2 mile from the NSA > > (hmm) along CWX railroad tracks. > > > > Does anyone know (in general terms) how the actual spot/vicinity of a fiber > cut like this is located? Or its generally the construction crew calling > the boss and saying, shit, look what we found? > > Would appriciate any info. > > Thanks. > > /Subodh Nijsure ([email protected]) -- |-------------------------------------------------------| 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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