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chemaupr

join:2005-06-06
Alexandria, VA
Is cable or cooper fire proof?

Pardon my ignorance but are cable or fire are fire proof?

They want an alternative, but what is there that is accident or sabotage proof?


CCTVTech
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join:2003-04-23
Phoenix, AZ
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They want another fiber run through a different part of the city, so if one goes down the other fiber can take over. (Redundancy)
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Pictor Guy

join:2004-06-21
Sammamish, WA
Right... SPOF in a network but blame the cable.

MZR

join:2006-08-12
TX

reply to chemaupr
Sorry to say but the only way around this is redundancy and it adds higher cost to infrastructure, something that telecomm companies are not willing to do unless someone pays for it(government).

Fibers are not always underground and we can tell this one is not in a ring. Accidents are going to happen for sure so there should be an alt route to avoid long outages, at least for the voice traffic.


Anonymous_
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join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
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·RoadRunner Cable
·Time Warner Cable
·Time Warner VOIP

reply to CCTVTech
said by CCTVTech See Profile :

They want another fiber run through a different part of the city, so if one goes down the other fiber can take over. (Redundancy)
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what if both go down

(earthquake)
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nufty

join:2001-08-09
San Ramon, CA

reply to MZR
Also, please consider the geography of the area as you are assigning blame. There are very few alternatives to the single route when you consider how cable must be run to get to these communities....coastal commission, national forest/parkland, etc. Add in Caltrans and their "fees" and you have a real mess.


LilYoda
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Mountains

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If you're a small business, you're SOL

Large businesses have Disaster Recovery Centers, where all their data and infrastructure is mirrored. They are usually located far away, in another state, or better, another country.
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