[Outages-discussion] [outages] Fiber cut between Marion andMuncie IN

[Clayton Zekelman]

Its a new deployment technique - surface fiber.  I think the installation contractors are offering it as free feature they give the carrier when they're deploying thousands of miles of fiber and they think nobody is watching...

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Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] [outages] Fiber cut between Marion andMuncie IN
   From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com>
   Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:41:02 -0500
     To: "'Jeremy L. Gaddis'" <jeremy at evilrouters.net>,
         "Matt Addison" <maddison at lightbound.net>
     Cc: outages-discussion at outages.org

>Was the fiber laying on the ground, that it got cut by a brush hog?
>
>Frank
>
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>From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On
>Behalf Of Jeremy L. Gaddis
>Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:51 PM
>To: Matt Addison
>Cc: outages at outages.org
>Subject: Re: [outages] Fiber cut between Marion and Muncie IN
>
>Here's what I received, timestamped 2234 UTC:
>
>"Fiber Provider Zayo Engineers found the 144 count fiber cut in half by a
>brush hog. Splicers are onsite pulling slack at this time with a
>tentative ETR for lit services of about 4.5 hrs with all others being
>6 to 8 hours."
>
>--
>Jeremy L. Gaddis
>http://evilrouters.net/
>
>
>
>
>On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Matt Addison <maddison at lightbound.net>
>wrote:
>> In case anyone else is seeing oddities or down circuits that pass through
>central Indiana, we're aware of a confirmed cut between Marion and Muncie
>that's affecting some of Zayo's lit services and possibly others.
>>
>> OTDR and repair crew in the field, ETR TBD.
>>
>> Regards,
>> LightBound Operations
>> ~Matt
>>
>>
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