U.S. Hunters Shoot Down Google Fiber
September 21st, 2010Via: IT News:
Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon were “regularly” shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground.
The search and advertising giant’s network engineering manager Vijay Gill told the AusNOG conference in Sydney last week that people were trying to hit insulators on electricity distribution poles.
The poles also hosted aerially-deployed fibre connected to Google’s $US600 million ($A635 million) data centre in the Dalles, a small city on the Columbia River in the US state of Oregon.
“What people do for sport or because they’re bored, they try to shoot at the insulators,” Gill said.
“I have yet to see them actually hit the insulator, but they regularly shoot down the fibre.
“Every November when hunting season starts invariably we know that the fibre will be shot down, so much so that we are now building an underground path [for it].”
Research Credit: JL
The awesome powers of low-tech 🙂
When I read https://cryptogon.com/?p=17715 I wondered if any nation might put together a cheap and comparatively low-tech means of neutralising this kind of surveillance. If people can build working subs, rockets and pulse-jets as pet projects it’s certainly possible.