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List:       outages-discussion
Subject:    Re: [Outages-discussion] Centurylink Arizona fiber cut
From:       Bill Wichers <billw () waveform ! net>
Date:       2015-03-14 0:31:38
Message-ID: 2607FDB6-36C8-428D-8D31-2F73B0A0CC7F () waveform ! net
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Just a thought, but if they were embellishing the truth you could conceivably \
"inspect" the fiber "mile by mile" by carefully looking at an OTDR trace. In that \
case the "mile by mile" claim would technically be truthful, but no one would have \
actually been out walking/driving along he route. 

Yeah, this is a bit of an oddball way to look at things, but I thought I'd throw it \
out there for thoughts. 

-Bill

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On Mar 13, 2015, at 7:53 PM, "Jay Hennigan" <jay@west.net> wrote:

> The author of this article:
> http://andrewseybold.com/3539-it-cant-happen-to-me
> 
> and I are in discussion over this issue. He stands by the "inspected
> mile-by-mile" claim and much of the other hyperbole in the popular press
> mentioned in the previous discussion on outages.
> 
> From what I can tell the break occurred around noon local time and there
> were crews actively splicing by 6 PM in a location "not easily reached
> by vehicle". This doesn't lend much credence to the idea that repair
> crews were walking miles of fiber route looking for something
> suspicious, nor does it lend credence to the idea that CL only became
> aware of a problem when they started getting calls from customers.
> 
> Has there been an RFO released or any other available information that
> can be shared regarding the actual repair procedure and/or timeline here?
> 
> I'm really trying to squash some of the FUD and "Sky is falling"
> mentality every time a circuit goes down somewhere.
> 
> --
> Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net
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