[PLUG] Comcast outage

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Russell Evans wrote:
> One of the best aerial fiber examples is the fiber that is run in armor
> at the tops of high voltage transmission lines.
[snip]
> Underground fiber cables also have loops, but these are stored in vaults
> under the streets, think a six foot deep by four foot by four foot wide
> concrete box with a manhole at the top.. At one point all the fiber
> loops in Portland for ELI went through a single manhole / vault in a
> street in downtown Portland. The risk was so great that ELI filled the
> vault with fire block I think this was prompted by a garbage truck
> breaking down and catching fire a block away, I think the truck melted
> into the street before it was put out.

This may have been prompted by a different event.

When I was at ELI (three years in data engineering developing network
management systems), we had a major fiber break in Eugene when that car
lot caught fire... the overhead fiber melted for, like 50 feet in each
direction.

Boyo, that was a mess.  And you should have seen the alarm storm.

J.
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