[AusNOG] SMW3 Restoration

[Joseph Goldman]

Or a pure act of Terrorism? Not quite on the same scale but I admit to 
once being employed by a company that had to take emergency measures 
after some boring hardware failure to lay fibre across roof tops to 
maintain connectivity in acertain regional NSW town, and I am sure I 
remember seeing more than one purposeful looking 'kink' in the fibre 
from possible disgruntled citizens. I thought that was pretty annoying 
but someone coming and stealing a chunk of your cable would be quite bad 
when it holds that much capacity!

On 10/04/13 20:20, Damian Guppy wrote:
> Maybe they think that they are copper cables or something? There is a 
> fair amount of metal in them (usually stranded steel) for structual 
> integrity so they might (must?) be doing it for the scrap value.
>
> --Damian
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au 
> <mailto:markzzzsmith at yahoo.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>
>     Is there a (black)market for 2nd hand submarine cable, or is there
>     something it is made with that is valuable enough to make it worth
>     stealing (copper perhaps?). It isn't going to be the cleanest
>     thing to buy and either redeploy or pull apart.
>
>     Regards,
>     Mark.
>
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     > From: Bevan Slattery <Bevan.Slattery at nextdc.com
>     <mailto:Bevan.Slattery at nextdc.com>>
>     > To: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <gaurab at lahai.com <mailto:gaurab at lahai.com>>
>     > Cc: "ausnog at ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at ausnog.net>"
>     <ausnog at ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at ausnog.net>>
>     > Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2013 5:17 PM
>     > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] SMW3 Restoration
>     >
>     > Exactly what I heard.  One cable and restoration via
>     terrestrial/festoon was
>     > crazy :)
>     >
>     > B
>     >
>     > Sent from my iPhone
>     >
>     > On 10/04/2013, at 5:11 PM, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <gaurab at lahai.com
>     <mailto:gaurab at lahai.com>> wrote:
>     >
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>     >>  On 4/10/13 7:51 AM, Bevan Slattery wrote:
>     >>>  And that was sent to me by another cable owner who was affected.
>     >>>  3 cables were apparently affected in this alleged and as yet
>     >>>  unconfirmed act of sabotage.
>     >>
>     >>  from a cable owner, this sabotage effected all but one cable
>     between
>     >>  SG-ID, and happened in a span of 3 weeks or so. SMW3 on the SG-ID
>     >>  segment was affected in addition to the fault already on the ID-AU
>     >>  segment. Restoration firefight, he said was massive.
>     >>
>     >>  - -gaurab
>     >>
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