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Backhoes also can't be blamed for every outage. Cars hitting poles that carry aerial fiber, people ripping up fiber thinking it is copper they can steal, boat a
by mike_d 6y ago
Backhoes also can't be blamed for every outage. Cars hitting poles that carry aerial fiber, people ripping up fiber thinking it is copper they can steal, boat anchors at landing sites, etc.
Level 3 at one point stated 17% of all fiber cuts were from squirrels... https://web.archive.org/web/20151213214019/http://blog.level3.com/level-3-network/the-10-most-bizarre-and-annoying-causes-of-fiber-cuts/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151213214019/http://blog.level...
- late2part 6y agoIdiots shooting rifles at aerial fiber...
- entangledqubit 6y agoOne of my favorite network incident reports involved someone using aerial fiber for target practice...
- late2part 6y agoI didn't see your post before mine. I've had circuits down TWICE due to this.
- dboreham 6y agoTrue but generally backbone circuits aren't aerial.
- late2part 6y agoFalse. It is common for long haul fiber paths to have material portions delivered over aerial runs.
- dan-robertson 6y agoNew York is particularly bad for having lots of arial fibre that gets taken down by car crashes or squirrels.