[AusNOG] SMW3 Restoration

[Damian Guppy]

If it was a few cuts or a couple (dozen) meters of cable I would say
terrorism, but stealing 16 tons of cable and going to the effort of
bringing it back with you and loading it on trucks seems more like blatant
theft to me.

--Damian


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Joseph Goldman <joe at apcs.com.au> wrote:

>  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>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>
>> > To: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <gaurab at lahai.com>
>> > Cc: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <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>
>> 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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