[AusNOG] Fibre Cut NEXTDC S1 Yesterday?

Sat Jul 16 23:51:46 EST 2016

Do we know who was doing it?

I don't think we need specifics (although they are always a good read), but
there's a company that I think most of us would like to avoid doing any of
this kind of work.

...Skeeve

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On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Bevan Slattery <bevan at slattery.net.au>
wrote:

> **NOT FOR REPUBLISHING**
> Hi Matt,
>
> Bore hits are amongst the worst possible.  Because unlike a “backhoe fade”
> the backhoe driver lifts the bucket and notices some blue cable and
> (usually) stops.  A person that “bores” often hits and keeps boring
> wrapping the cable around the borer and keeps it going.  Bore gets tight,
> so they go harder.  Sometimes if the operator keeps going and going then
> this can pulls the tubes of fibre so much that it “snaps” further and
> further down the cable path.  It can sometimes pull additional cable from
> the maintenance loops in manholes further down the street.  These
> maintenance loops are more designed as slack so a new pit and joint can be
> dropped where the incident occurred.   Loops can also help protect the
> joint at either end from getting slammed into the pit wall causing more
> damage and outages.  On this occasion I understand a kink formed in one of
> these loop as it was being forcefully fed into the duct which meant those
> fibres were also damaged.  This leads to cable replacement from the
> original joint all the way through.  Due to the Motor Way (and not many
> buildings along that route) the distance between joints/loops was a bit
> longer than normal.  So yeah – it took quite a long time to repair.
>
> Quite remarkably there was a scheduled outage in three weeks to relocate
> the duct bank.  Duct bank relocations are quite rare so we will have to
> look at the impact of same.
>
> As for what happens?  Well the operator will want to have great
> insurance.  Usually no criminal action is taken due to lack of intent
> (usually negligence/stupidity).  In Singapore if this occurred you will
> almost certainly go to jail and face multi-million dollar fines.
>
> Cheers
>
> [b]
>
> From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Matt Perkins <
> matt at spectrum.com.au>
> Date: Saturday, 16 July 2016 1:44 pm
> To: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Fibre Cut NEXTDC S1 Yesterday?
>
> We lost superloop strands to IC2 as well. The guys were very prompt with a
> work around for that much damage. I think they said it will require a 3km
> fiber pull to fully resolve.
>
>
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> On 16 Jul 2016, at 1:06 PM, Greg Lipschitz <Greg at thesummitgroup.com.au>
> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:22 AM +1000, "Bevan Slattery" <
> bevan at slattery.net.au> wrote:
>
> "When Borer meets Fibre", the sequel to "When Harry Met Sally"
>
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> [b]
>
> On 16 Jul 2016, at 10:53 AM, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm informed that there was a Fibre cut at NEXTDC S1 yesterday at 1pm
>
> Crews from Pipe/TPG, Superloop, Vocus. Telstra were onsite.  Must have
> been a serious one.
>
> Anyone affected?
>
> ...Skeeve
>
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