Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State | Washington Free Beacon

[Louis Mamakos]

What someone ought to be asking is how a single fiber cut partitioned the network?   What, no diverse routes?  What happens in the usual mundane sort of fiber cut when the backhoes get hungry?  I suppose this due the "extremely sensitive" fiber in question, can't withstand a little insult, eh?  There's other transport network failures from vandalism that happen all the time -- bored hunters shooting at aerial fiber cables.  Not "terrorists", just 2nd amendment rights in action, I suppose.  How about some breathless articles about those fine people?

louie
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> On Mar 1, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Tom Azlin W7SUA <tom at nilza.org> wrote:
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> yup.
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> All sorts of excitement around here plus incredible wild speculation on what was happening. The local delivery guy gave me the first clue on how wide spread the outage was but then asked me if I thought we were at war! I told him likely just a fiber cut as some sort of modern major attack would cause more complete outages.
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> We lost CenturyLink hosted long distance and internet services most of the afternoon.  Our Verizon cell phones and 3G cell internet service were still running so I presumed their fiber was somewhere else the vandals did not find. Main issue around here is being able to keep our wells and water pressurization systems running so worst would have been a long power outage. We have a back up generator for the water system and our fridge but the propane will run sooner or later.
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> Local hams were active. Mountain top repeater sites have good backup power. I presume the local and State  ARES/RACES and NTS nets would have come up for health and welfare traffic plus there are many EOCs around the county with assigned ham radio teams. The yearly fire season keeps all that working.
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> I'm wishing that this would help put in some action on making sure our infrastructure is robust but am guessing will be soon forgotten. Especially in light of the cost to add more cable or power routes.
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> 73, tom w7sua
> Chino Valley AZ
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> On 3/1/2015 11:21 AM, Richard Barth wrote:
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