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For the infrastructure-level network admins out there, is there different lingo for an intentional and accidental fibre break, or is "fibre cut" used for both?
by tomatotomato37 8y ago
For the infrastructure-level network admins out there, is there different lingo for an intentional and accidental fibre break, or is "fibre cut" used for both? I'm just thinking 'cut' is a pretty intentional word to use here.
- mrrsm 8y agoA fiber cut can happen from innocent enough things, such as digging without getting the proper surveying done first.
- pwg 8y agoNot one of those admins, but generally the term "fibre cut" always seems to be related to "backhoe operator accidentally digging a hole through the buried fiber line" when the final reason for the outage comes out.
- AndyMcConachie 8y agoFiber cuts happen all, the, time. The reason users don't notice is because networks use redundant links. There's really no way to know without doing some serious investigation if it's intentional or not. But my guess would be accidental. A large network like Comcast/L3 is likely dealing with multiple cuts to fiber on a daily basis.
- troydavis 8y ago“cut” is used for both. Common causes are digging/construction work, maintenance by other carriers sharing the same right-of-way, weather (mostly for aboveground runs and equipment), and occasionally stuff like animals (“squirrel chew”), hunters shooting at things, and equipment failure that doesn’t fail over to redundant gear properly. Intentional, targeted damage is really rare, even when multiple paths experience concurrent outages. The fact that 2 paths were affected isn’t enough to assume it was intentional.
- calgoo 8y agoI have seen a lot of people digging up the fibre believing it's copper wires they can steal.