Re: looking for documents describing frequent causes for line cuts

2013-05-18 Thread Ryan Gard
Here's one I came across from Southern Telecom that seems to give some hard numbers on incidents they've experienced with their fibre lines being severed. Hope this is useful for your needs. Link: http://www.southern-telecom.com/AFL%20Reliability.pdf On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Kyle Creyts

Re: looking for documents describing frequent causes for line cuts

2013-05-18 Thread Kyle Creyts
thanks! also amusing: http://blog.lafayetteprofiber.com/2008/06/nutria-ratsand-fiber.html http://news.techeye.net/internet/internet-attacked-by-bears#.TnZXk5rhOv8.reddit but I'm looking for something slightly more efficacious than anecdotal. off-list replies (and, why not, some of them are reall

Re: looking for documents describing frequent causes for line cuts

2013-05-17 Thread staticsafe
On 5/17/2013 22:16, Kyle Creyts wrote: > has anyone come by documents containing some statistics regarding leading > causes for cuts in fiber, power, cable lines? > > I seem to remember one which included % cuts due to equipment failure, > maintenance, weather, rodents, boring, car accidents, etc.

looking for documents describing frequent causes for line cuts

2013-05-17 Thread Kyle Creyts
has anyone come by documents containing some statistics regarding leading causes for cuts in fiber, power, cable lines? I seem to remember one which included % cuts due to equipment failure, maintenance, weather, rodents, boring, car accidents, etc. but alas, I cannot find it in my archives.