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1. cube00 · 1790017251 · focus · HN ↗

   > When it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fiber had a break

   Pretty grim that a life critical system wasn't designed to report that the backup fibre was unserviceable until they attempted to switch over to it.

   I wonder how long it was down? Days, weeks, months?

   1. krashidov · 1790018516 · focus · HN ↗

      Could this be sabotage?

      1. pvaldes · 1790020300 · focus · HN ↗

         I would put my money on it.

         Similar events happened in Europe disguised as thieves stealing fiber optic. This does not have any sense economically, as the value in the market is zero so... either is an honest accident and is cleared in a few days, or is sabotage

         1. rcostin2k2 · 1790021572 · focus · HN ↗

            This used to happen more often in the past, when copper thieves mistook fiber for conductor. There were cases where critical systems were shut down due to fiber optic theft, and the thieves were caught burning the sheathing to expose the... glass.

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