East Coast Internet Outage. Is it a fiber cut?
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NY here, internet is fine.
DC area here, all is good for us at the job.
News reporting a Verizon fiber cut between DC and Boston.
1 cut fiber does not an outage make. There is redundancy in the network. If you can’t get from a to b you go from a to c to b. There are Lots of routers and switches in the network that is the internet, to keep it simple.
DC here, my internet works.
Great can you give us a true update of what’s going on in your city? Thanks!
My neighborhood seems normal. Internet working, etc.
Rumor on the street is that Cuomo was trying out his new weedwhacker, when all of the sudden...........
Completely believable. I operate an excavator for my local water utility and they are constantly running new fiber optic lines via directional drilling machines, sometimes right on top of our old and fragile water utility. Legally, I can't put a tooth in the ground until everything is located but, many times the lines are unknown to the locators and one gets hit. I haven't hit one, yet, but, I've had to dig around them a few times.
Excavators with backhoes are the natural predator of fiber optic cable in the wild...
But 1 cut line doesn’t cause an outage. There are countless routes in the internet. All routers have routing tables that would detour the traffic to other paths. To keep it simple. Instead of going from a to b your traffic would go from a to c to b
Interesting that it is being referred to as a "snow day" during the pandemic.
I have no doubt a fiber was cut as reported. Only question is.
Who did the cutting?
Who cuts fiber anymore? It's not sitting at shovel depth unprotected. Total bullshit
Rerouting has already kicked in.
Just read it’s in Brooklyn with no estimation of resumption....which seems odd. If you know where it’s cut, shouldn’t there be a SOP for repair?
And redundancy. The routers would automatically divert the traffic to an open route