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The Biggest Dangers to Your Fiber

ffejie writes "Fred Lawler, SVP of Global Field Services at Level 3 has an amusing look at some strange fiber cuts that he's seen in his days maintaining a large fiber network across the U.S. Whether it's squirrels, vandals, storms or truckers, it seems everyone has a new way to destroy the fiber that keeps the global communications infrastructure afloat."

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  1. Re:Oh.... by RussellSHarris · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No shit, for some reason I was thinking that kind of fiber, too - all the way up until I read "fiber network", anyway. Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

    Come to think of it, "no shit" was probably the wrong phrase to use that context...