Wednesday, January 8, 2020

When the backhoe cometh

For anybody operating in a data center you have any control over, this scenario is near the top of “bad things that happen”. I only worked in a “physical” data center for three years before I moved to the cloud where backhoes can’t reach.

My stupid question is how does the ISP fix a situation where fiber to a data center has been destroyed by a careless backhoe? My understanding is you can’t just splice and rejoin fiber like you can copper. Do they have re-trench and run fiber from the nearest junction?



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