East Coast Internet Outage. Is it a fiber cut?
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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