I can’t even drive to many repeaters this time of year. Takes me longer to get to a microwave site than they take to restore the fiber.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 25, 2019, at 1:40 PM, Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Here’s a great example. > > Just happened: > It’s 3:30pm eastern. > > The backbones between Allegheny Center Mall and Slippery Rock University are > currently unavailable. Crown Castle Engineers have determined that the reason > for outage is fiber damage. Repair work is underway. The estimated time of > total recovery is 8:00 PM EST. > > Restoration of 8pm. That’s five hours or more (this doesn’t take into > consideration time to get there and diagnose. Just the splice work). > > >> On Feb 25, 2019, at 2:27 PM, dave <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We just need a GIANT Satellite in space that will emit static discharge with >> infrared as a primary blanket of coverage using a laser beam to feed it. >> >> All looks good on paper :) >> >> >> >> On 2/25/19 11:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>> With 100% underground construction, fire doesn't bother it much. However >>> most folks probably don't realize that handholes will burn. They are >>> polymer concrete. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen Sent: Monday, February 25, >>> 2019 9:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Earthquake Fiber vs >>> Microwave >>>> On 2/25/19 8:30 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>>> I know I can throw a temp chunk of fiber on the ground and have things up >>>> and running in an hour or two. >>> >>> >>> If you can gain entry to do that. Look at the major CA fire zones that just >>> happened: nobody was getting in for weeks on end. But I did see a lot of >>> emergency PCNs for new microwave paths that skipped over closed areas. >>> Nobody is going to let you work on a temporary splice next to a building >>> that's partially collapsed. Or a broken gas line. Or a broken water line >>> that's undermining the area. Roads/bridges can become impassable in >>> seconds. So many variables that could keep you out of any given area you >>> could shoot over with microwave much faster. With fire tower sites are >>> often defensible structures for fire crews. >>> >>> In earthquake or fire disaster planning always include microwave. If you >>> have to realign you're guaranteed to only need access to the endpoints not >>> potentially X number of midpoints if there's more than one fiber break. >>> >> -- >> <Vcard.jpg> >> -- >> 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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