Crumbs
Rich T finds some tasty titbits you might have missed in the week's news
Wednesday 22 August 2007, 5:23 PM
Not a great fibre provider
The longer I work in this business, the more bizarre excuses I hear for network downtime. The Capital's More London complex was apparently cut off from the outside world the other week by rats chewing through its fibre. A few months ago, suspicious green goo took out thousands of ADSL lines.
The latest excuse isn't bad either. Apparently large swathes of the States were taken out on Sunday after someone shot a fibre-optic cable. Quite how they did that is unclear, but about 1km was affected near Cleveland, Ohio. Large numbers of businesses and consumers across several states were knocked offline or suffered high levels of delay.
If any readers can top that, I'd be fascinated to know.
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