Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!telecom-request From: eli@cisco.com (Steve Elias) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Sprint Outage in CA Last Week Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 91 00:48:39 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 261, Message 2 of 10 thomas%mvac23.uucp@udel.edu (Thomas Lapp) wrote: > My question for those in the know: What was the cause of the fiber > break which caused the Sprint outage last week? Details please. If > it was along a RR right-of-way (and buried) how was it cut? Not by a > train wreck I assume? Right? Wrong! According to the local news here in the bay area, the fiber was cut by the train wreck. The video they showed made this easy to believe. The train wreck had ripped up the track badly, along with all sorts of other stuff that must have been under or along side the track. The newsfolk did make some comment indicating that those who had put the fiber down may not have gotten the appropriate permissions from the track owners, however. As an aside, there was a similar controversy (but no train wreck or fiber cut) in Framingham, MA about a year ago. eli