[outages] Fiber cut in NoVA

Peter Beckman beckman at angryox.com
Wed Oct 21 01:52:25 EDT 2020


If you have a better address, I'm about a 10 minute drive from there.

Saic Drive does not cross Gallows.

Gallows Road ends at Route 7, turns into International Drive.

I could not find an Saic Ct.


On Tue, 20 Oct 2020, Ross Tajvar via Outages wrote:

> 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> 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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