<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hamburg responds to net outage. <br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Dan Hamburg" <<a href="mailto:vote@pacific.net">vote@pacific.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 6, 2014 7:27:00 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:editor@mendocinotv.com">editor@mendocinotv.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:announce@lists.mcn.org">announce@lists.mcn.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [MCN-Announce]- Fiber Optic Damage</b><br></span></div><br><div>Terry Vaughn writes: "AT&T will never build a self-healing fiber ring<br>unless our county supervisors and mayors take this failure as a warning of<br>what can happen when we lose 1 small link to the outside world. Our leaders<br>need to work with the state and telecom companies to restore our confidence<br>in the network. The Mendocino Coast needs a diverse path for<br>telecommunications off the coast. What business or college would invest in<br>a place where a car accident can cause so much economic damage."<br><br>Terry is right on the mark. I do want to take note that the Broadband<br>Alliance of Mendocino County (BAMC) and its chair Jim Moorehead have been<br>warning about the precariousness of the network that serves the Mendocino<br>Coast, and much of the rest of rural Mendocino County, for several years.<br><br>In fact, BAMC sponsored a proposal to the CPUC (Golden Bear Broadband) that<br>would have created two redundant fiber rings on Route 1 (the Mendocino<br>County ring would have been: Laytonville/Westport/Fort<br>Bragg/Manchester/Ukiah) with the internet backbone interconnections at<br>Laytonville and Ukiah. ATT was instrumental in blocking that proposal.<br><br>According to Jim, ATT failed in two ways in this most recent incident:<br><br>1) ATT failed to have adequate material and personnel available locally to<br>respond to this emergency in a timely manner; and<br><br>2) ATT does not have a redundant network to route around problems like<br>this. This is a basic network design flaw that saves ATT money.<br><br>BAMC, which is the arm of the Board of Supervisors on broadband issues, is<br>collecting information for a full report to CPUC. Please share relevant<br>information with Brandon Merritt in the county Executive Office<br>(<a href="mailto:merrittb@co.mendocino.ca.us">merrittb@co.mendocino.ca.us</a>).<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:announce-bounces@lists.mcn.org">announce-bounces@lists.mcn.org</a> [mailto:announce-bounces@lists.mcn.org]<br>On Behalf Of <a href="mailto:editor@mendocinotv.com">editor@mendocinotv.com</a><br>Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 9:08 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:announce@lists.mcn.org">announce@lists.mcn.org</a><br>Subject: [MCN-Announce]- Fiber Optic Damage<br><br>Mendocino TV was out to the site twice, the night it happened and then the<br>next day. The circumstances are murky but the latest is that the damage may<br>have been a lowboy trailer with some machinery on the back. <br>Still, no one can vouch for the height of the cable either.<br>The cable was placed on poles because there were problems boring the road at<br>that section. The other side of the road was marshy and the bore wasn't<br>steering well. The county yanked the permit to protect their road, so AT&T<br>had to go aerial for 4 spans before diving into the ground again.<br>When I visited Sunday night they were still assessing the damage. It was<br>extensive and was damaged in all 4 spans. The conduit was plugged from the<br>manhole out so they couldn't pull any slack.<br>The next day there were splicer trailers, ladder trucks and a crew of<br>repairmen pulling up and attaching to trees a temporary fix of 3 smaller<br>fiber cables to span over the damaged section. Service had been restored for<br>45 minutes that morning before another splice knocked the first one off the<br>air. That was when it was becoming apparent that there was more trouble<br>further up the span.<br>A trauma of this nature can whiplash throughout the span and shatter in<br>multiple spots. Hence 6500 feet of replacement fiber.<br>Due to the extent of the damage I'm always amazed at how quickly the local<br>guys can repair a catastrophic event.<br>I was skeptical when I heard they were going to get 6500 ft of fiber and<br>place it by 7pm. I was amazed then when service came back on at 3:45.<br>Sage at MCN called it right when he said the coast needs to be part of a<br>self healing fiber ring which will fix itself, not a fiber stub that, when<br>cut off, bleeds.<br>It's expense to place fiber. AT&T will never build a self healing fiber ring<br>unless our county supervisors and mayors take this failure as a warning of<br>what can happen when we lose 1 small link to the outside world.<br>Our leaders need to work with the state and telecom companies to restore our<br>confidence in the network. The Mendocino Coast needs a diverse path for<br>telecommunications off the coast.<br>What business or college would invest in a place where a car accident can<br>cause so much economic damage.<br>Doctors, Dentists, Emergency personnel were affected. So were the<br>communities of Comptche, Little River, Albion and Mendocino.<br>Kudos to Tom Allman for taking this seriously and staffing the coast with 24<br>hr coverage during this time and to the volunteers that staffed Comptche,<br>Mendocino and Albion - Little River Fire Stations for keeping open for<br>emergency assistance.<br>AT&T's crew handled the catastrophic failure with incredible efficiency and<br>skill yet they're just reacting to something that wouldn't happen if we had<br>a self healing network"<br>Talk to your county supervisors to develop an emergency preparedness plan<br>that accounts for this event happening again because it will.<br>Terry Vaughn<br><br>--<br>Editor<br><a href="http://www.mendocinotv.com">www.mendocinotv.com</a><br><br><br>__________________________________________________________<br>__________________________________________________________<br><br>Announcement mailing list<br>announce@lists.mcn.org<br>The Mendocino Community Network (MCN) provides the MCN Announcement list.<br>Use of the list is subject to the terms of service at<br>http://www.mcn.org/email/atos.html<br><br>__________________________________________________________<br>__________________________________________________________<br><br>TO POST to this list send emails to announce@lists.mcn.org <br>TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to announce-leave@lists.mcn.org<br>*** To complete the process you must reply to the email you receive in<br>response. ***<br><br>For listserv technical problems please contact:<br>listmanager@mcn.org<br><br><br>__________________________________________________________<br>__________________________________________________________<br><br>Announcement mailing list<br>announce@lists.mcn.org<br>The Mendocino Community Network (MCN) provides the MCN Announcement list.<br>Use of the list is subject to the terms of service at<br>http://www.mcn.org/email/atos.html<br><br>__________________________________________________________<br>__________________________________________________________<br><br>TO POST to this list send emails to announce@lists.mcn.org <br>TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to announce-leave@lists.mcn.org<br>*** To complete the process you must reply to the email you receive in response. ***<br><br>For listserv technical problems please contact:<br>listmanager@mcn.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>