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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">The North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe strikes again.</div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">We need to start an annual culling of that herd.</div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">Christopher Conley</div>
<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">Systems Administrator | <span style="color:rgb(255 ,61 ,0)">Fors Marsh Group</span></div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">Arlington, VA 22201</div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto" style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Ross Tajvar via Outages <outages@outages.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 20, 2020 10:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OUTAGES Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [outages] Fiber cut in NoVA<br>
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<div dir="ltr">We also have some Wave (RCN) circuits impacted by this cut. A little more info:
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<div>As of ~7pm Eastern:</div>
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<pre class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__pre" style="box-sizing:inherit; margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:4px; padding:8px; font-size:12px; line-height:1.50001; font-variant-ligatures:none; white-space:pre-wrap; word-break:normal; border-radius:4px; color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Monaco,Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace">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.</pre>
Then at ~9pm Eastern (this one we got over the phone from Wave who got it from Fiberlight):</div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29); font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><font face="monospace" style="">they are "routing a spare conduit to check for damages" and continuing to do escavation [sic], no ETR, 432-count fiber</font></span><br>
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Nothing since. Anyone have a picture of the damage? Or live close enough to go take one?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 6:36 PM Ross Tajvar <<a href="mailto:ross@tajvar.io">ross@tajvar.io</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">We have some Fiberlight circuits impacted as of about 9:45 AM Eastern. Still down. Here's what they said:
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<div><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size:15px; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">FiberLight NOC detected multiple alarms between devices in the greater WDC area,
including links down between Vienna VA and our WDC datacenters.</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit; display:block; height:8px; color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size:15px; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)"></span><b style="box-sizing:inherit; color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size:15px; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">Current
Status:</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit; color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size:15px; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">
<span style="color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size:15px; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures; background-color:rgb(248,248,248)">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.</span> <br>
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<div><b style="box-sizing:inherit; color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size:15px; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Preliminary RFO:</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit; color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size:15px; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">
<span style="color:rgb(29,28,29); font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif; font-size:15px; font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Fiber cut near 7990 Science Applications Ct, Vienna VA</span> <br>
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