“Sold you fiber , not working fiber” is at the same time amazing lawerying and insanely facepalmy. :) On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:48 Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net> wrote:
Cold changes the transmission characteristics of fiber. At one point we were renting some old dark fiber from the local telephone company in northern Maine. When it would get below -15%-degree F the dB would get bad enough that the link using that fiber would stop working. The telephone company was selling us dark fiber because regulation required them to. They refused to give us another fiber nor inspect/repair. They took the position they were required to sell us fiber, not working fiber.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:41 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
For anyone running IP networks in the Midwest, are you having to do anything special to keep your networks up?
For the data centres, is this cold front a chance to reduce air conditioning costs, or is it actually straining the infrastructure?
I'm curious, from a +27-degree C summer's day here in Johannesburg.
Mark.
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