[Kzyxtalk] Hamburg responds to net outage

[King Collins]

Hamburg responds to net outage. 

Begin forwarded message:

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