ARRL: WHEN VANDALS STRIKE INFRASTRUCTURE, HAMS PROVIDE COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT

[Philip Miller Tate]

Thank goodness they didn't have to contend with BPL in San Jose.

Phil M1GWZ



On 18 Apr 2009, at 00:17, Iain McFadyen wrote:

> Thursday was a very bad day: I didn't get much sleep at all.   In  
> fact, there was another (allegedly accidental) fibre cut, in  
> downtown MIAMI, on the same day, just around the same time.   This  
> caused me no end of grief down here in Jamaica: We restored all  
> services (not only for Jamaica but for many other Caribbean  
> countries like Dom Rep, Curacao, Trinidad, Grenada, Puerto Rico,  
> Columbia), by rerouting services on other cables, avoiding downtown  
> Miami.   But we continued to get reports of degraded performance on  
> the WorldWide Web. Checked, double-checked and triple-checked my  
> reroutes around the Miami cable cut, only to find out that the  
> degraded performance issues were now being caused by the San Jose  
> fibre cut.   Go figure.
> Though its overall importance in the whole scheme of things has  
> dropped since the mid-90s, if there had been any fibre cuts in the  
> Tysons Corner/MAE East area at the same time, there might have been  
> dire consequences.   Iain    KI4HLV/6Y5
> --- On Fri, 4/17/09, andre kesteloot <andre.kesteloot at verizon.net>  
> wrote:
> From: andre kesteloot <andre.kesteloot at verizon.net>
> Subject: ARRL: WHEN VANDALS STRIKE INFRASTRUCTURE, HAMS PROVIDE  
> COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT
> To: "Tacos" <tacos at amrad.org>
> Date: Friday, April 17, 2009, 4:05 PM
>
> ==> WHEN VANDALS STRIKE INFRASTRUCTURE, HAMS PROVIDE COMMUNICATIONS  
> SUPPORT
> Just after midnight on April 9, someone climbed down four manholes  
> in the San Jose, California area and cut underground fiber optic  
> cables.
>
> =
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