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

[William Fenn]

Louie,

I doubt you have ever been to Arizona and have any idea of what the terrain
is like.  There is lots of dry land that some call a desert out there and
this limits many options on how to route things.


N4TS



-----Original Message-----
From: Tacos [mailto:tacos-bounces+wfenn4=verizon.net at amrad.org] On Behalf Of
Louis Mamakos
Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2015 5:16 PM
To: Tom Azlin W7SUA
Cc: tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone
Service Across State | Washington Free Beacon

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
wa3ymh


> On Mar 1, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Tom Azlin W7SUA <tom at nilza.org> wrote:
> 
> yup.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 73, tom w7sua
> Chino Valley AZ
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/1/2015 11:21 AM, Richard Barth wrote:
>> When all else fails...
>> 
>>
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/vandalism-in-arizona-shut-down-inter
net-cellphone-telephone-service-across-state/
>> 
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