[outages] Vandalism of CenturyLink fibre in Arizona causes large outage footprint.

[Stephen Wilcox]

On 26 February 2015 at 17:07, joel jaeggli via Outages <outages at outages.org>
wrote:

> On 2/26/15 7:53 AM, Stephen Wilcox via Outages wrote:
> > "According to Juarez, technicians from Monroe, Louisiana-based
> > CenturyLink had to go through a long, tedious process of inspecting the
> > line "mile by mile." Meanwhile, Flagstaff's 69,000 residents tried to go
> > about their daily business."
> >
> > So, northern Arizona is entirely single homed from a CenturyLink fiber,
> > and CenturyLink technicians don't own an OTDR but in fact walk miles to
> > find cuts?
> >
> > Sounds more like CenturyLink made a huge mess up here and threw out some
> > PR spin that the media believes is normal, vandals huh..
>
> in the 2013 san jose cut, the cable was severed in two places, making
> the distance to break different from both ends.
>

not running an OTDR from both ends to determine the extent of the break and
any damage to the cable (such as stretching) is incompetence... I'd hope
the long distance field engineers understood how to analyse and repair a
break (then again, I'd hope they knew how to build a redundant network too)
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