Re: The Year of the Backhoe Continues...
do people really think that the relative fiber cut rate is any higher than in the past? there's a bit more fiber, hence the term 'relative'. but i suspect that the predominant factor is that new victims have a better means of broadcasting their displeasure. randy
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
do people really think that the relative fiber cut rate is any higher than in the past? there's a bit more fiber, hence the term 'relative'. but i suspect that the predominant factor is that new victims have a better means of broadcasting their displeasure.
Yes, just look at worldcom stats, they went almost 3 years without a cut, and now have had 4 major cuts in a short time. Part of this is because their own people are cutting the fiber when they are working on the expansion. -Nathan
Randy Bush sez:
do people really think that the relative fiber cut rate is any higher than in the past? there's a bit more fiber, hence the term 'relative'. but i suspect that the predominant factor is that new victims have a better means of broadcasting their displeasure.
The real issue is the "gigabit/width of right of way" ratio of 200 strands of monomode is exponentially larger than it was with lead-wrapped, paper pulp, copper. Thus each hit hurts a LOT more folks... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
Only marginally. That increase I personally attribute to the increasing number of outages (increasing but still relatively few) number of outages caused by people digging up fiber while trying to lay more fiber. The relative severity has gone up though for two reasons. First, there is more fiber than ever in the ground and that which is in the ground is carrying more traffic than it used to. So a single cut can cause lots of people problems. Also, because of the increase in internet use, the visibility of such cuts has gone way up.
do people really think that the relative fiber cut rate is any higher than in the past? there's a bit more fiber, hence the term 'relative'. but i suspect that the predominant factor is that new victims have a better means of broadcasting their displeasure.
randy
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