From: Mark Boolootian (no email)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2006 - 16:49:34 EDT
> In addition to the traditional backhoe threat, as the price of copper
> increased so has the threat of people stealing telephone trunk cables
> containing copper wire.
Indeed. Here's a story from five years back:
[http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001/03/02_fiber.html}
Fiber optic cut disrupts network access for hill facilities
Vandals severed wires in effort to take copper cabling in underground conduit
By Cathy Cockrell, Public Affairs
02 March 2001 | An underground fiber optic cable connecting the campus with
facilities in the Berkeley hills was severed during the early morning hours
of Tuesday, Feb. 27. The incident disrupted network connections for hundreds
of employees at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Hall of
Science, the Samuel L. Silver Space Sciences Laboratory and other Strawberry
Canyon operations.
Campus officials believe the cut was the work of thieves, who forced open
a manhole cover on the hillside above Memorial Stadium to remove high-voltage
copper cabling from an underground conduit.
"The fiber cable apparently was in the way; they just chopped it out," said
Berkeley lab Manager of Communications Facilities Ed Ritenour, who spent much
of the next few days "running up and down the hillside in a lot of mud" to
oversee repairs.
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