Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber

coondoggie writes "Internet service providers in the US experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. TeliaSonera AB, which lost the northern leg of its US network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot up over a length of a kilometer. 'Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable,' said a TeliaSonera spokesman. The company declined to name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications Inc. Level 3 could not be reached for comment."

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You've never fired a gun have you?

[EmbeddedJanitor]

No rifle will be able to send a bullet along 1km of fibre. The fibre was shot multiple times over the km.

Depending on the number of breaks it might be easier/cheaper to just replace the whole km of fibre.