The first cable cut occurred at 13:43 GMT close to Vernegues-France
involving a group of six cables, damaged by an excavator, interrupting the
service on the segment Marseille-Lyon.
The second cable cut occurred at 14:21 GMT on a highway near to
Milano/Bersaglio, about 530km away, interrupting the service on the segment
Milano-Zurich.
Service was restored at 1:40 GMT the next day.
It just shows that protected fiber rings do have an enemy - and his name is
Murphy.
-Hank
TI Sparkle just confirmed they are having a fault.
Email from Telecom Italia Sparkle - Seabone NOC:
Dear
We have a big fault ( fiber cut) in france 2 cuts and one in milan.
We are working to solve it asap.
Regards
- Telecom Italia Sparkle SpA
Customer Assistance/Assurance I° t Se at bone Network Operations Center Via
M. Palocco, 223 Rome, IT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Varaillon Jean Christophe [mailto:varaillon at cosmoline.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:05 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Fiber Cut in Italy
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems that there is a major fiber cut in Italy (not really near
nanog, so
> just in case...)
>
> I was just wondering if anybody has heard of any possible recovery time
- as
> there is none official one yet.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jean-Christophe VARAILLON