when I was the local switched network manager in the AT&T GNOC (mission control for the company in Bedminster NJ) back in '99-'02, the most dangerous animal was a contractor with a backhoe or piledriver.  Especially Texas DOT putting in armco barriers along the interstates.  Summer was always the worst...because the crews were out in full force...and it doesn't take much for a backhoe to pull up buried fiber conduit(s) or a pile driver to send a metal I beam through the bundle buried along the right of way.

It happens.  All it takes is a 2' misreading of a drawing or non-updated elevation to put the bundle in harm's way.
--
Bryan
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On Jul 22, 2015, at 10:05, Jeff Carrier <k0jsc.jeff@gmail.com> wrote:

There have been an awful lot of cut fiber optic cables lately.  We had one last week in Colorado.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
The upstream Internet provider (AT&T) is having a major, region wide outage that started about 2PM EDT on Tuesday and is still down.

AT&T reports a major fiber cut near Greensboro, NC, about 175 miles NW of Wilmington. They estimate that service will be restored by Wednesday afternoon

An alternative for the web page is http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/

Image downloads will not work until this major outage is fixed.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio

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