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Of course they are colored. Like this: http://www.evertopcomms.com/144-fiber-count-gyts-fiber-optic... It is still a lot of work, and so far not automated.
It is also, as a matter of practicality, going to be very difficult to find 144 colors that can‘t be mistaken for one another, particularly in conditions that i would imagine wouldn‘t have great lighting.
No problems in Jersey City all day. Bleeping Computer article cites someone as saying it's a specific AS that's affected. JC routes through an AS in Newark, NJ and not NYC so, for me at least, there hasn't been an outage.
When houses are created there are building codes to adhere to. For example, when there is a water pipe behind the walls a plumber (a good one) would also put a plate in front of it. In this way, once the walls are in place, drilling away into the wall, or nailing, would hit the metal plate, thus provides some safety mechanism. As another example, underground, in public areas are markings (or at least procedures) to i…
Where are you located (roughly)? Having assisted in remodeling of 7 homes in the US (IL, WI, CA) built between 1880 and 2005 I haven't seen this.
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I'm probably the only person reading this thread who owns a backhoe, and it's only a small one. There's really no material that will resist being dug through and is also practical to bury over miles and miles of fiber. There obviously are processes and measures in place to prevent "backhoe-fade" events, including armored cable, tracer wires and tape above the main cable but humans being humans things sometimes don't…
CAT450 here!
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60-70 gigabits per second for $40/month? Guessing you mean megabits. Not worth being packet inspected. 1gbit on comcast seems to give 42 mbps upload, was 50 a few months ago. ~$80/mo edit: hitting 48-50 mbps again today, sweet
Comcast "gigabit" is a lie. I reliably get 900mb down and 900mb up with Verizon in DC.
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Except these posts seem to regularly get taken down or flagged. This isn't even on the front page anymore it seems.
It set off the flamewar detector. We monitor that list and eventually cancel the penalty for threads that aren't actual flamewars, but it takes a while. If anyone wants to make it faster, emailing hn@ycombinator.com is usually a forcing function. Edit: Also, posts without URLs get a downweight by default. I've turned that off too, and merged the other threads into this one, since it was the first one.
Why? There do not appear to have been any posts remotely resembling a flamewar in the comments.
Imagine a world where all our enemies DIDN'T know how fragile our infrastructure is. False security, surely, but still would be somewhat comforting. :)
Firstly, America should strive to not have enemies. We fail at this very badly. Secondly, ZERO countries in the world have non-fragile infrastructure. America's infrastructure is better than most countries and definitely above average even among developed countries, except public transportation.
When houses are created there are building codes to adhere to. For example, when there is a water pipe behind the walls a plumber (a good one) would also put a plate in front of it. In this way, once the walls are in place, drilling away into the wall, or nailing, would hit the metal plate, thus provides some safety mechanism. As another example, underground, in public areas are markings (or at least procedures) to i…
As for fiber cuts, one case I'm aware of involved a large diameter concrete drill/hole saw with a diamond-tipped blade. Not much you can do to armor against that.