Ray, i think you are correct that a “prudent speculator” could profit from
spectacularly disasterous breaks in high pressure gas lines,
landslides
and a few trawlers,
however i think there are still a few, ugh, well let's just say, less sinister ways to invest.
Anyway, i did witness an event related to Frank's comments about
WCG's CEO on CNBC and from some other sources:
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...WCG is demonstrating some cockiness - call it self-assurance - about the integrity and the protections afforded by the safeguards put in place along their pipeline routes.
They contrast this bullet-proof, almost invincible, quality to the far more vulnerable [they argue] railroad rights of way, highway medians, and private and municipal properties where it appears that backhoes are now being trained to find silica and Kevlar.
Their assertion is that they have had only one major pipeline mishap on these routes over the years that would have affected communications, had they had fiber placed along them at the time. In contrast, they point out, fiber cuts are taking place with regularity along competing routes of the types I've listed, above...
About 150 meters into the woods behind my house, there is an underground gas line that, according to legend, runs from Kentucky to Canada. A few years ago, the Town began the installation of a municipal Sewerage System. A portion of a poop main line was to be run parallel to the gas line, approximately 100 feet away (i am using the same Units of Measure as NASA).
To facilitate the traffic of heavy vehicles that would need to cross the gas pipe line several times a day during the construction, the contractor laid thick steel plates over a portion of the pipe line to distribute the trucks' weight. This worked well for 3 days. On the 4th day, there was a massive explosion that left a crater 150 feet in diameter. Fortunately, there were no serious injuries. I think it is reasonable to conclude that, if there had fiber been located along the gas pipeline, packets would have been dropped.
Frank, i think your proposal for a discussion of protection switching, automatic recovery schemes and the complexities introduced by multiprotocol environments is an excellent idea. I look forward to reading the views of all of this thread's knowledgeable participants.
Dave, thanks for the web hosting articles. That is another topic that i need to study up on. |
