Why is the stockholm pop so frequently out of service?
Fiber cuts in Europe, something in Denmark this time. Maybe they should learn to drive backhoes better :(
But it happens frequently enough to hit 2+ hours outage minimum span per week.
Quote from: mr2 on May 06, 2010, 02:49:52 PM
But it happens frequently enough to hit 2+ hours outage minimum span per week.
Indeed. Perhaps more breathalyzer tests on backhoe drivers are needed over there.
ETR appears to be 45-60mins.
ETA until next backhoe takes out fiber in Europe is 5 bottles of cheap wine with anti-freeze.
LOL
Did this happen in Sweden? Perhaps a maypole was pyle-driven into a fiber conduit? :P
So how do you fix something like this? Drop some sort of box in the ground and put the new connections inside that?
Quote from: cholzhauer on May 06, 2010, 07:59:25 PM
So how do you fix something like this? Drop some sort of box in the ground and put the new connections inside that?
I've always wondered about that too. I imagine they have to cut and clean the broken section of fiber, then fusion splice a new section in place.
Some vids showing fusion splicing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPtVXMnTKDc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPtVXMnTKDc)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rTFk3b4JLM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rTFk3b4JLM)
And of course if the fiber is in a conduit, that's probably broken too and needs to be repaired or replaced. From what I've seen, typically a conduit will have several cables of fiber containing bundles of many fibers. Each one of these have to be cut back, cleaned, cleaved, and spliced individually. Takes a bit of time to fix things I imagine.