Hi blitz, I think that you talk about multiple outage in the Telefonica Network in Spain cause by sabotage. (48 fibers in 4 points at the same time) I see ok the interest of the ministry, is necessary to assure that outages don't affect to the national infraestruture. In our case we build our network over diverse companys with diverse path in their fiber network. I see ok, that all companys that operate basic services do it and they will have backup and emergency plans. Regards, Daniel Intelideas On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, blitz wrote:

The Spanish ministry of science and technology has asked telecommunications companies to activate a backup plan in the case of such emergencies in future.

Spare fibers in the same duct ;-?

Doesn't sound like it would be much protection from "backhoe fade"...heh