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From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley)
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Subject: Re: Service Outages, Fiber, etc.
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judice@sulaco.enet.dec.com (Peripheral Visionary 08-Jan-1991 0951)
writes:

> We seem to be really plagued by telecom service outages recently.
> Since I'm sure there's not a large increase in the number of cables
> being accidentally cut, my suspicion is that more and more traffic is
> being handled by fewer and fewer high capacity fiber routes.

   Tuesday evening, about 4:10, the local PBS station lost the feed
for a program called "Fresh Air". After a few minutes, they came back,
using a poor quality phone feed.

   At the end of the show, we were told that the problem was caused by
a break in a fiber cable between New York and Philly. I don't know if
they get the feed in real time, but would guess that they must if they
put up with the poor feed just to carry the show.

   YACC (Yet Another Cable Cut)?