[outages] Fiber cut in NoVA

[Christopher Conley]

The North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe strikes again.

We need to start an annual culling of that herd.


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Christopher Conley
Systems Administrator |  Fors Marsh Group
1010 N. Glebe Rd, Suite 510
Arlington, VA 22201
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From: Ross Tajvar via Outages <outages at outages.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 10:54 PM
To: OUTAGES Mailing List
Subject: Re: [outages] Fiber cut in NoVA

We also have some Wave (RCN) circuits impacted by this cut. A little more info:

As of ~7pm Eastern:

Damage traced to construction at Gallows Rd and Saic Ct. Damage is due to construction boring and is 10 feet deep. Crews on site. No ETR at this time.

Then at ~9pm Eastern (this one we got over the phone from Wave who got it from Fiberlight):
they are "routing a spare conduit to check for damages" and continuing to do escavation [sic], no ETR, 432-count fiber

Nothing since. Anyone have a picture of the damage? Or live close enough to go take one?

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 6:36 PM Ross Tajvar <ross at tajvar.io<mailto:ross at tajvar.io>> wrote:
We have some Fiberlight circuits impacted as of about 9:45 AM Eastern. Still down. Here's what they said:

FiberLight NOC detected multiple alarms between devices in the greater WDC area, including links down between Vienna VA and our WDC datacenters.Current Status:
FiberLight technician was dispatched to Vienna VA to isolate the issue. Initial readings put the fiber break less than 1km from that location. Troubleshooting is ongoing.
Preliminary RFO:
Fiber cut near 7990 Science Applications Ct, Vienna VA

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