*Rod Beck*rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com
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I would calm down, Miles. 😃 Dark fiber networks are built and usually
maintained by the same construction company that installed them. And a dark
fiber network does not even need a single full time optical engineer. If the
cable is damaged, then the guys who installed it will repair it. All the
expertise is there.
And no, I am not an executive at a undersea cable system. i was one of Hibernia
Atlantic's top salesmen during the early years from 2004-2011 after which I
retired.
Funny thing then, given that you signed your original query as:
Roderick Beck
VP of Business Development
United Cable Company
www.unitedcablecompany.com<http://www.unitedcablecompany.com
<http://www.unitedcablecompany.com/>>
And following the link to United Cable Company's web site reveals:
"Your source for the world's most distinctive submarine cable assets."Â
And the about page says "Its mission, as a leading telecom consulting
company, is to represent the world’s most distinctive submarine and
terrestrial cable assets."
Your original query asked:
Am I wrong in believing that there should be a way of lighting a single pair in
the cable and then monitoring it for signal disruption? It is not a perfect
solution, but arguably better than learning that the cable has been damaged
from an irate customer.
In a followup message you say:
Just to clarify, this is a dark fiber network already built and will be
repaired by the construction company that built it. I just a system to inform
them as soon as the fibers are damaged.
So... color me confused about who you are, who you represent, what
you're trying to accomplish, what you're asking, and, perhaps, why you
don't already know the answer to your question, or have someone internal
to your organization who already knows.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our lab, theory and practice are combined:
nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown
