ET Brought Down by Garbage Truck

MELBOURNE, Fla. - Nearly 10,000 phone customers were left with busy signals and missed calls this morning after a garbage truck with its lift up sliced through a fiber-optics cable, officials said.

The driver, J. Stock, was quoted as saying "...serves 'em right...and I'd do it again too..."


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Baron runs a couple rack mount servers from the trunk of his car in the Coco Beach Pier parking lot while he sits at the open air bar drinking Pina Colatas.

Quote from nitro:

Baron,

Are you running ET out of your house, or at a colocated datacenter?

nitro
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Quote from Tech Analysis:

Good point; you'd think that the flexing from wind, etc would destroy them over time.

Makes you wonder about the whole internet infrastructure in this country sometimes . . .
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True Story:

A while back there was a huge outage on the internet and traffic between the west coast to specific points on the east coast had to be routed around the globe through Asia.

Apparently a digging company severed a huge colossal assortment of OC-792 lines or whatever the largest was at the time.

The bill must have been astronomical.
 
How do you repair fiber optic cables? Can you, or do you have to replace the entire section? I'd think that any repair would cut down on transmissibility across the splice.
 
ET now known as Extra Trash...


Baron...

Get that banana peel of your keyboard and wipe the grease off your monitor.....they can't keep you down....

Michael B.
 
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