Someone shot up a fiber-optic cable and caused significant Internet slowdowns throughout the US on Monday.
Internet Gunned Down Near Cleveland
The Internet's design allows it to route around many problems, but not always without a degradation in connectivity. Repair crews investigating a service problem near Cleveland found a bullet riddled cable as the reason for a recent disruption.
InfoWorld cited Scandinavian telco and mobile operator TeliaSonera as having lost a connection to the US on Monday night. The owner of the network segment of cable hasn't been officially identified, but has been suggested to be Level 3 Communications.
Technicians working on the outage discovered the physical reason for it. That Geeky Dude blogger Chris McCoy posted a TeliaSonera response that gave some additional details:
Concerning the cable break near Cleveland we have been informed that the cables have been intentionally sabotaged. The provider informed that they need to change the whole damaged fibre part and that is 3600 feet. Fibre has been ordered and ETA is 1900 UTC.
Once the fibre arrives they need to blow it into the 3600 feet long duct before the splicing can start. It is 60 fibres that need to be spliced. The issue is escalated to our top management and also with the provider.
As information I also provide this link: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/cle/ showing that the weather conditions in the Cleveland are impacting the time of solving this issue.
A peek at Keynote's Internet Pulse shows connections between major network providers operating normally, with minimal latency between them.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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