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Originally Posted by KC911

Absolutely true story...back when fiber was just hitting the scene on corporate backbone networks, and wasn't easily repaired. On paper...we were redundent...different carriers even. Backhoe showed us the fiber trunks were passing through the same culvert in a different area of the city one afternoon... A.mega-data center in limp mode for a day or so...fun times

Yeah, most of our redundancy includes getting maps of the exact routes of the fiber so we can see anyplace that they intersect or are close to each other.