Jeff Kell wrote:
>
> Mark Wonsil wrote:
> >
> > Wirt writes:
> > > If people have complained about jobs being shipped off-shore
> > > before, wait for the giant sucking sound as this cable is lit.
> >
> > If a group of union activists decide to cut up some of this fiber to
> > save domestic jobs, what would you call them?  Lud-darks?
>
> Doesn't take activists, only a backhoe (well, underwater I suppose it
> would need a dredge or drilling platform).  With long-haul fiber running
> at 10Gb (slightly less for SONET, slightly more for OC-192) and even
> more with optical switching and wavelenth-division multiplexing, you
> could whack a whole lot of bandwidth in one swipe.
>
> Jeff
>

This actually happend to MCI here in Texas. My cousin worked for an MCI
call center handling operator-assisted calls for South America. A new
fiber line had been installed between Houston and the Dallas area and
shortly afterwards a backhoe was used to cut the line in two places one
mile apart. Approx. 30' of line was removed at each cut, making a splice
next to impossible in a short period of time - so MCI had to build two
separate buildings for repeater equipment. I suggested to my cousin that
it sounded like a sub-contractor that didn't get paid that had installed
the line in the area - they knew exactly where to dig in the utility
corridor to cut MCI's line only. Ended up costing MCI about $1.5
million.

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