Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=463928&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=3/23/2006 A fire Tuesday that tore through a popular bakery in Cohoes left 70,000 Time Warner Cable subscribers without TV service. Some who also rely on the cable company for their high-speed Internet or telephone found all three out of commission. In the pictures, it appears electric, telephone and cable lines were all on the utility poles damaged by the fire. I'm not sure why time-warner cable had the brunt of the outages in the newspaper reports. It may have just been bad luck on which company's lines got baked (sorry, more bad puns).
n Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:32:13 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=463928&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=3/23/2006 A fire Tuesday that tore through a popular bakery in Cohoes left 70,000 Time Warner Cable subscribers without TV service. Some who also rely on the cable company for their high-speed Internet or telephone found all three out of commission.
In the pictures, it appears electric, telephone and cable lines were all on the utility poles damaged by the fire. I'm not sure why time-warner cable had the brunt of the outages in the newspaper reports. It may have just been bad luck on which company's lines got baked (sorry, more bad puns).
A few years back there was a photo floating around of a fibre that had been destroyed by a stray bullet. Does anybody know of it, or have a copy ? Thanks, Mark. -- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
Once upon a time, Mark Smith <random@72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org> said:
A few years back there was a photo floating around of a fibre that had been destroyed by a stray bullet. Does anybody know of it, or have a copy ?
When we used to do some cable modem access with one of the local cable companies, it went down overnight one night. The cable company tracked it down to the cable being shot off the pole in two places. We didn't get any pictures though. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Mark Smith wrote:
A few years back there was a photo floating around of a fibre that had been destroyed by a stray bullet. Does anybody know of it, or have a copy ?
This is more common in some areas of the country than other areas. Shooters will take potshots at microwave towers, cables of all types on utility poles, and even the occasional electrical transformer. The shot itself may not cause an immediate outage, but the hole lets rain in causing an outage later. They also shoot stop signs, mailboxes and just about everything else.
I used to have a customer who were in the forestry business. They had a hundred miles or so of railroad down South that went from one of their sawmills to places that had lots of trees, and ran some telecom cables along them. Where they had bridges, the cables would hang underneath the bridges. They had some cable problems during the rainy season, due to wetness, but they also ran into problems during hunting season with guys named Bubba who'd shoot at birds on their cables (presumably when they were taking a break from their day job of driving backhoes...)
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=463928&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=3/23/2006 A fire Tuesday that tore through a popular bakery in Cohoes left 70,000 Time Warner Cable subscribers without TV service. Some who also rely on the cable company for their high-speed Internet or telephone found all three out of commission.
In the pictures, it appears electric, telephone and cable lines were all on the utility poles damaged by the fire. I'm not sure why time-warner cable had the brunt of the outages in the newspaper reports. It may have just been bad luck on which company's lines got baked (sorry, more bad puns).
... why is a backbone circuit is unprotected? there shouldnt have been an outage Steve
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