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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Fiber cut in SJ
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Joe McGuckin wrote: > > On 8/5/05 8:12 PM, "George William Herbert" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > First, an electrical contractor backhoed a large fiber > > link in downtown San Jose (address deleted due to security > > concerns) this morning, causing moderate damage. > > That's just plain silly. As if we (or even your imagined 'terrorist') don't > know where the fiber runs around here. well.. theres lots of ducting going down streets but not that many folks know which of them are the major cable routes, i think keeping specific detail discrete is reasonable in a fire near where i am a couple years ago: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/23/arson_suspected_in_manchester_cable/ it seemed a bit of a coincidence that both the active and protect paths of a major sdh route got hit in this attack and it took out a lot of long distance circuits Steve
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