[Outages-discussion] Fiber Cut in Southern NJ

[George Bonser]

Seeing fiber get shot is normally something seen in the countryside during hunting season.  Generally a few cases a year of that happening.  Rare for the city.

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> From: outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-
> discussion-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Jon Radel
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:53 AM
> To: outages-discussion at outages.org; tim.donahue at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] Fiber Cut in Southern NJ
> 
> Ah, now we get some details:
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> 
> We have further information regarding the cause of the fiber cut. The
> fiber was apparently shot by a gun.
> Fibercut has been isolated to 5700 feet from 401 N. Broad Street.
> Windstream crews will have to resplice
> 72 of aerial fiber.  They are currently still pulling slack and will
> begin splicing soon, ETR is 2 hours.
> 
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> 
> I honestly didn't realize it was that type of neighborhood.....
> 
> --Jon Radel
> jradel at vantage.com
> 267-756-1014
> 
> On 8/30/12 1:11 PM, Jon Radel wrote:
> > Yes. We lost part of our XO MPLS-based network in the Philadelphia
> > region.  We've been told that there was a fiber cut involving at
> least
> > 72 strands.  We've been told, as of 11am ET, that some repair has
> been
> > achieved but there's no ETR available for all splicing to be
> completed.
> >
> > Anything interesting, such as exact location of the cut, other
> > carriers involved, what happened, etc., have been carefully filtered
> > out of what I'm being told.  ;-)
> >
> > --Jon Radel
> > jradel at vantage.com
> > 267-756-1014
> >
> > On 8/30/12 1:02 PM, Tim Donahue wrote:
> >> Has anyone heard anything about a fibercut near the Southern
> >> NJ/Philadelphia Area?  We have been getting random error messages on
> >> phone calls today and we heard a rumor that there might be a outage
> >> in that area.
> >>
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