Subject: They pulled a BIFF *Hi,

Early 1990's, when I was at Rutgers in NJ, we called it: "Backhoe-Induced Deep Fade" Kelly J. On Oct 20, 7:27am, TTSG wrote: * * I was wondering if anyone has heard of the following term. I *received it as a notification of an outtage from a vendor : * *At 5:35 CST, October 19, 1998 our AT&T backbone had 23 T-3's cut by a *contractor. This caused a massive BIFF (Backhoe Induced Fiber Failure). * * Tuc/TTSG *

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