[Outages-discussion] Centurylink Arizona fiber cut

[Bill Wichers]

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 at 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.
> 
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