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This is from a previous thread on the topic of fiber cuts but I thought it fit this discussion well, epsecially since it concerns Verizon. Apologize for not being able to recall who originally posted it - only have the citation. In an August 5th, 2003 court case involving the Maine Public Utility Commission an expert witness from Verizon stated that only 10% of the fiber rings in Maine are fully redundant, and 90% are at least partially collapsed and vulnerable to single cut failures (Maine PUC, 2003) Maine PUC, 2003, “Docket Number 2002243” http://www.state.me.us/mpuc/misctranscripts/2002-243%20080503.htm Appears it should not be a suprise at all it was not redundant. On a related note another researcher at GMU has collected all the outage reports that "were" posted on the FCC website and put them in a database form, and we are going to try and run correlations between outage location and the density of fiber located there. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Abley <[email protected]> Date: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:23 am Subject: Re: fiber cut 19 May/PM -> 20 May/AM in Ashburn, VA (lawnmower?!) > > > On 21 May 2004, at 08:09, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > > sonet, obviously, does not *have* to be in a ring, but it often is. > > unfortunately, a fair percentage of the time, the additional > > protection offered by a ring topology is a mirage, due to a > > configuration known as "collapsed backbone". in this instance, both > > pairs of fiber ride in the same conduit for some portion of the > > distance > > ... or even as two wavelengths on the same pair of fibre. > > It's a sick, sick, twisted world. > > > Joe > > >
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