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The Telecom Digest for Sun, 03 Feb 2019
Volume 38 : Issue 34 : "text" format

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Weekend temps to reach 40s as polar vortex dies down, low temperature records setBill Horne
Re: Tonga utility striving to lift capacity after undersea cable cutHAncock4
Re: Extreme Cold Freezes Out Internet, Phones in Madison County, Ind.HAncock4
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20190201164309.GA26827@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:43:09 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Weekend temps to reach 40s as polar vortex dies down, low temperature records set By Jonathon Sadowski RACINE COUNTY - The polar vortex is mercifully subsiding after a grueling stretch that saw over a foot of snow and record-low temperatures batter the area. Service outages Some local AT&T and Spectrum customers experienced outages Wednesday and Thursday. Neither company shared how many customers were affected or for how long when asked. https://journaltimes.com/news/local/weekend-temps-to-reach-s-as-polar-vortex-dies-down/article_a60a39e8-2675-5f96-a877-0deec2d67aa2.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <335c40cb-cabe-42f9-a9bd-cc8c7434a1d1@googlegroups.com> Date: 1 Feb 2019 12:39:57 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Tonga utility striving to lift capacity after undersea cable cut On Monday, January 28, 2019 at 12:27:37 PM UTC-5, bernieS wrote: > The Tonga Cable, a subsea cable providing the kingdom's broadband > connection, broke down on Sunday evening resulting in an outage that > took out all the kingdom's domestic and international cell phone and > internet coverage. Some historical background on undersea cables. The technology is different, but some of the basics remain. Indeed, it is amazing what they could do sixty years ago. 1957 WUTR--Fault Location in Submarine Telegraph Cables http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/technical/western-union-tech-review/11-3/p086.htm 1963 undersea cable repair https://books.google.com/books?id=_O4XJrtre4AC&lpg=PA4&dq=boys%20life%20%20july%20%201963&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q=boys%20life%20%20july%20%201963&f=false 1964 cable ship Long Lines https://books.google.com/books?id=HEFsdunJeZMC&lpg=PA1&dq=boys%20life%20%20march%201964&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false 1965 US Japan undersea cable: https://books.google.com/books?id=MixUVHHhs88C&lpg=PA12&dq=%22boys%20life%22%20bell%20telephone%20sea%20legs&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false ------------------------------ Message-ID: <7895f7e1-c81f-4f0e-8a66-922468b2c3d2@googlegroups.com> Date: 2 Feb 2019 11:10:01 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: Extreme Cold Freezes Out Internet, Phones in Madison County, Ind. On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 11:36:13 AM UTC-5, Bill Horne wrote: > A fiber-optic cable hut stopped working as a result of freezing > conditions, disrupting the Internet connections and phone service > across two local governments. Emergency services were not impacted.` > > By Laura Arwood > > (TNS) - The severe cold froze the internal systems of Madison County > and the city of Anderson on Wednesday. > > Sometime between 6 and 7 a.m. Wednesday, a fiber-optic cable hut > stopped working, causing the two governments' internal phones and > Internet servers to crash, Madison County IT Director Lisa Cannon > said. > > http://www.govtech.com/network/Extreme-Cold-Freezes-Out-Internet-Phones-in-Madison-County-Ind.html Time to break out the snow buggy! (What the Bell System did to protect against winter in 1952) https://books.google.com/books?id=QI9Wk5Z8vbwC&lpg=PA28&dq=boys%20life%20snow%20buggy&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 03 Feb 2019

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