“Sold you fiber , not working fiber” is at the same time amazing lawerying and insanely facepalmy. :)
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:48 Fletcher Kittredge <fkitt...@gwi.net> wrote: > > Cold changes the transmission characteristics of fiber. At one point we > were renting some old dark fiber from the local telephone company in > northern Maine. When it would get below -15%-degree F the dB would get bad > enough that the link using that fiber would stop working. The telephone > company was selling us dark fiber because regulation required them to. They > refused to give us another fiber nor inspect/repair. They took the position > they were required to sell us fiber, not working fiber. > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:41 AM Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > >> For anyone running IP networks in the Midwest, are you having to do >> anything special to keep your networks up? >> >> For the data centres, is this cold front a chance to reduce air >> conditioning costs, or is it actually straining the infrastructure? >> >> I'm curious, from a +27-degree C summer's day here in Johannesburg. >> >> Mark. >> > > > -- > Fletcher Kittredge > GWI > 207-602-1134 > www.gwi.net >
