<div dir="ltr">9am Eastern:<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Crews have spliced the first 216 of the first 432.</span><br style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Working to pull 2nd 432. Some alarms have started to clear. No ETR available</span> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 2:32 AM Ross Tajvar <<a href="mailto:ross@tajvar.io">ross@tajvar.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">12am Eastern:<div dir="auto">Crews are having to dig 10 feet in both directions along fiber path due to more</div><div dir="auto">damage being identified. No ETR available.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1am Eastern:</div><div dir="auto">Crews have repaired half the duct, and have 1 of 2 cables placed to the first</div><div dir="auto">splice point. Splicers are preparing cable while construction crews continue to</div><div dir="auto">repair the other half of the duct. No ETR available.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2am Eastern:</div><div dir="auto">Crews have the second section of duct while continuing to prepare for splicing. No ETR available.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 11:03 PM Stephen Klenert <<a href="mailto:sklenert@atlanticmetro.net" target="_blank">sklenert@atlanticmetro.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Its was a duct bank seeking directional drill actually... :)<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:00 PM Christopher Conley via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto">The North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe strikes again.</div>
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<div dir="auto">We need to start an annual culling of that herd.</div>
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<div dir="auto" style="border:none;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Ross Tajvar via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>><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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<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>
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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">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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