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True failure: Gun kills Internet fiber

Without doubt, this wins the bizarre failure of the week award. Network World reports Internet slowdowns because someone shot a cable located near Cleveland:TeliaSonera, which lost the northern leg of its U.
Written by Michael Krigsman, Contributor

Without doubt, this wins the bizarre failure of the week award. Network World reports Internet slowdowns because someone shot a cable located near Cleveland:

TeliaSonera, which lost the northern leg of its U.S. network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot. "Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable," said Anders Olausson, a TeliaSonera spokesman.

The outage caused headaches for Christopher McCoy, a system administrator for a Web hosting company in Atlanta. "This Telia outage is really causing a pain," he wrote in a blog posting. "Telia is one of my company’s main network providers, and explaining to your average Webmaster the details and specifics of a fiber break isn’t all that easy.

And if you told them the cable was a victim of gunfire, would they even believe you?

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