Wave Broadband service restored after 'deliberate act'

KCRA TV - Sacramento, California ^ | 7/1/2015 | David Bienick

[MeganC]

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —Service was restored late Tuesday night to all Wave Broadband customers in the greater Sacramento and Rocklin areas after a "deliberate act" caused a large outage, according to a Wave official.

"The disruption to service in the Sacramento Rocklin markets due to the fiber cut of several partner carrier providers has been resolved," read a statement on Wave's website. "As of about 11:40 p.m. Tuesday night, phone, TV and Internet services are operating normally."

The disruption to customers' phone, television and Internet services lasted nearly 20 hours as crews worked to repair fibers that were cut early Tuesday morning.

Wave Broadband issued a statement on its website about the outage:

"Three major fiber cables connecting the region have been physically severed in what appears to be a coordinated attack on multiple Internet carriers beginning at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday morning."

[MeganC]

This kind of thing has been happening a lot in California over the past few years. No one ever takes credit for these attacks and no one is ever caught or prosecuted for them. It makes me wonder if this is all practice for something?

[KC_Lion]

Ping!

[MeganC]

Thanks for the ping! (-:

[Whenifhow]

FBI investigating 11 attacks on San Francisco-area Internet lines

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/30/california-internet-outage/29521335/

[Cboldt]

I’m thinking it’s pissed off (maybe fired) cable service people. Inside sabotage.

[Old Sarge]

H/T to our FRiend MeganC for the post, and to KC Lion for the heads-up.

Fromt the post: what appears to be a coordinated attack on multiple Internet carriers beginning at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday morning (6/30/15)

With FBI and DHS alerts for Muslim attacks over the Independence Day Weekend, that cannot be discounted.

Neither can the service disruptions that occurred right during the Boston Marathon bombing which went largely unreported, except here on FR...

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

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[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Sarge, may I get on your ping list?

[machogirl]

Wonder if the Arizona cut was part of the “practice”?
Feb 25, 2015. Just north of Phoenix, way out in the desert away from roads, a huge cable DELIBERATELY cut.
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/02/25/fiber-line-cut-leaves-northern-arizona-areas-without-internet/24009431/

[CGASMIA68]

are these cables in the air,underground,in the boonies......?
Back in the old days one needed a huge cutter to get through a 3600.now with a pair of side cutters one can cripple a city

[IYAS9YAS]

Feb 25, 2015. Just north of Phoenix, way out in the desert away from roads, a huge cable DELIBERATELY cut.

According to the article, the cut was somewhere near the intersection of New River Road and Circle Mountain Road in New River, AZ. Not way out away from any roads.

[CGASMIA68]

Article sez police have no suspect and talking head info babe sez accidental........so which is it..?

[Moonman62]

“Three major fiber cables connecting the region have been physically severed in what appears to be a coordinated attack on multiple Internet carriers beginning at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday morning.”

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420 is a significant number for some people.

[DuncanWaring]

No one ever takes credit for these attacks...

If I was of a mind to do this sort of thing, I'd just do it and keep my mouth shut.

[Patriot Babe]

o o I’m going to have my new phone service and Internet installed today by WAVE (formerly Astound). As of right now I have AT & T and my internet got shut down for an hour.

[VanShuyten]

Radical librarians, newspaper and magazine publishers, and over-air broadcasters?

[discostu]

It’s probably copper thieves. And/ or disgruntled former employees.

[Army Air Corps]

Interesting. Thanks for the ping.

[Mariner]

"Three major fiber cables connecting the region have been physically severed in what appears to be a coordinated attack on multiple Internet carriers beginning at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday morning."

Wave is omitting a material fact.

Cheap-assed bastards didn't do their homework to ensure their access to the backbone was truly redundant.

The cut occurred in a SINGLE manhole. Took their entire SAC network off the air.

80+% of the region didn't even sense a bump or slowdown.

The cited carriers are Zayo and L3.

It's the VERY SAME fiber bundle. Zayo purchased a BUNCH of L3 vacant strands (same ownership/leadership) and expanded it by purchasing small, metropolitan fiber owners.

Inter-city and interstate fiber is the same physical pathway.

[Mariner]

In ALL cases AT&T has redundancy.

Think about it.

Wave is cheap, but inherently unreliable.

[William Tell]

The Sonoma County court computers and phone system were down for almost two days starting at least early Monday morning. It was impossible for potential jurors to find out what their reporting requirements were. The system is up now.

Instead of a high-speed train to nowhere, Kalifornia should be investing in a hardened internet capability. The goal would be to eliminate outages caused by single point failures.

Unfortunately, Kalifornia is now a third world country and is unable to fill the potholes in its roads. Internet security will have to wait.