Either the ChiComs or an irate wife who is sick of her husband visiting Babes.com.
Sounds like someone who knew what he was doing, probably a upset employee.
Oh, to be a teenager again.
Talk about high-tech 21st-century sabotage! This is either Al Qaeda’s latest strategy or China testing out it’s asymmetric warfare capabilities.
I have always been fascinated trying to figure out just how they splice two lengths of fiber-optic cable together and make all those tiny connections work.
Telia and Cogent, being very cheap wholesale bandwidth providers, did not spend the cash to have a backup, alternate route; and were thus caught out by this problem.
Level3, my provider, has a fully meshed architecture and it would take 2 or more simultaneous outages to cause such a problem, and, it would be localized to one area.
Here in South Texas we have lost more than one fiber due to Dove/Quail Hunters. We have installed a triple shielded fiber that may do the trick. But I doubt it.
We put about 1000’ underground and then it got cut by a fence builder.
It happens and it can take a while to repair.
You know who’s fault. That darned George. Always busy.
I guess TeliaSonera has never heard of SONET rings? More likely they made a decision to go cheap. All that self-healing fiber-optic ring stuff costs money.
Well, great, now they know they can disrupt information flow. I wondered what the cause of the overall slowdown was, since many sites were at a crawl, but I had no direct ISP problems.
Terrorists are taking notes, I’m sure.
“”Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable,” said
Anders Olausson, a TeliaSonera spokesman. “
Hmm...maybe a Jihadi has come from his tour of duty in Iraq.
And after seeing how this Jihadi brothers have mucked up the petroleum
and electrical power grids with sabotage...
decided to see if a simple slege-hammer (non-tech) method could be used
to disrupt US infrastructure.
Yeah, I know that’s far-fetched.
But a lot of things sound less far-fetched after the morning of 9-11-2001.
The world is not bozoproof, unfortunately.
TeliaSonera is predominantly a euro-russo-turko company. I never heard of them owning lines in North America.
Pulled up? Where is it located, underground, underwater? Does not make sense. How can they determine that it is gunfire that did it, were there reports of gunfire in the area?
That being said, there is an saying that the best attack on something hi-tech is usually low-tech.
Has EPA been notified?
If any DU data was amongst that leaked, the toxicity would be very high.
Probably somebody shooting at a bird on a wire (which is illegal). Highly doubtful it’s terrorists, as some paranoids here think.
Never underestimate human ingenuity or just plain incompetence. When I was working we had a major link that ran thru a central office in San Salvador. The local company ran the cable right over the power supply for some florescent lights in a storeroom. The link handled major data traffic for South America and was used by east coast banks to handle after hours cash transfers. So when the sun went down in San Salvador, Jose goes to look for some parts turns on the lights and all hell breaks loose for BofA Barclays etc. Their solution a sign on the light switch that said”Don’t Use” and they put a lamp in the store room. It did work in the short term until the sign fell off the switch LOL