North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
> In addition to which, fiber doesn't emit a nice electrical signature that > can be detected easily, making it hard to avoid. Plastic, glass, > fiberglass, kevlar and the other elements of most fiber runs lay invisible > to many detection devices that rely upon metals content or electrical > impulse emission (crosstalk, noise, EMF...) for detection purposes. > > Now, some have written that we should encase these things with various > high-strength metals. I'm not willing, as an end consumer, to bear the > increased overall costs being passed to me, because $VBC laid 10,000 miles > (16 000 km) of protectively-encased fiber. Costs would be staggering. In You wouldn't need to encase it. Bury a little bit of copper with it, and blast RF out of it (think of it is a locater service). --msa
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