Several years ago, we worked with Boingo wireless installing a large WiFi network for barracks at Fort Bliss, Texas. Cisco APs inside, Siklu and Bridgewave for longer backhauls and Ubiquiti 3GHz for short ptp barracks to barracks links. I was in charge of all the outdoor links and quickly found out how well these barracks are built. The walls are 24 inches thick concrete with a rebar lattice of some type. Took us several tries to find the sweet spot to drill through without hitting rebar for fiber, power and LAN cabling feeds, I had to buy long drill bits for the Hilti drills. The mounts were secured with those rugged expanding anchors. Damn mounts were solid. We installed some on the foreign soldier barracks in new part of Fort Bliss...those were different...more like hotels...aluminum siding so we had to anchor to I-Beams. Anyways, the older barracks were designed to take hits.
Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390 On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 9:59 AM Matt Hoppes < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes. Fiber can be repaired. And then repaired again. And then repaired > again. It all adds up down the route. Plus the data center is destroyed. > > While folks are concentrating on ground zero the fiber is being destroyed > at multiple places down the road. > > Then with infrastructure destroyed a major attack of some sort takes > place. > > On Dec 26, 2020, at 11:54 AM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You don't need a terrorist to take out the satellites. One well-timed CME > will do it all. > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 12/26/2020 8:27 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > At least the satellites are safe, we have Space Force. > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> <[email protected]> *On Behalf > Of *Matt Hoppes > *Sent:* Saturday, December 26, 2020 10:18 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Data center Security > > > > Never thought about that. Yo get the data center back up. But your fibers > all down. In 5 places. But you only find out once you get one back > together. > > > > Yeah. We’re safe because no one has done it. Not because we’re safe. > > > > On Dec 26, 2020, at 11:14 AM, Darin Steffl <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I've thought about how vulnerable the entire US power and communications > grid is. > > > > It would be so easy to cut multiple long haul fibers, plant bombs at large > power transmission lines and then sync it all together to explode, cut > things at the same time. It could easily be done in rural areas only but > still affect metros since they all feed from rural power and fiber lines. > > > > There's also no cameras or as many people monitoring things in the middle > of nowhere. If this was done over multiple states and targeted multiple > grids and fibers, you could almost knock out 90% of all power and > communication. This would hurt more than any single location attack. > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 9:54 AM Matt Hoppes < > [email protected]> wrote: > > I hesitated on where to post this. Not that I think I’m giving anyone any > ideas - but still. > > What happened in Nashville has actually been a concern of mine for some > time. > > Look at 9/11. Huge loss of life yes. But that took a lot of effort and > planning and getting through security and learning to basically fly a > massive tin projectile. > > How much more damage could a small group do with 5 or 6 vans loaded with > explosives in a coordinated attack on say: NYC, 401N Broad, Ashburn, St > Louis, Chicago and San Jose? > > Throw in a few major CO switching offices in some major towns. > > You’ve caused mass disaster. Minimal planning. And now with 911 services > out and data crippled you could do something else even more major. > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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