I work in a rather large building that is 3 floors and is all wired up with fiber optic cables, going to from our communications room to a wall plate in each room, most with multiple runs of pairs of fiber. On the 3rd floor, we are constantly having fiber go bad and having to replace and re-terminate fiber jacks.
A co worker of mine has the idea that the reason this happens is because of how tall the building is, the upper floor most likely gets vibration and swaying from wind and whatnot. He says all this vibration is causing the fiber to go bad and literally says it is disintegrating.
I am rather new to the networking field. Is this a common issue? Could a slight vibration cause fiber to go bad over time? The stuff mostly sits there and is untouched by us, unless we are troubleshooting.
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