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Karen Ouellette Manager, Communications 800-237-6419 |
Blolite® Disaster Recovery Incident
Problem and Urgency
A common accident that could happen anywhere,
a backhoe uprooted a buried conduit containing an blown fiber computer network
backbone connecting three schools – ten days before the opening of the
school year and the much heralded showcase debut of the new network. The cable
installation contractor was given less than a week to complete the disaster
recovery operation.
Blolite Solution
The cable installation contractor received "marching orders" on Tuesday,
requiring the three-school network to be fully repaired and operational by
the next Monday. On Wednesday the contractor delivered a quote, and it was
approved. The entire disaster recovery operation was then completed from
start to finish the next day. On Friday the network was activated and tested,
and the disaster had been fixed virtually overnight.
At the scene of the accident, the repair crew dug a trench about three feet
wide and ten feet in either direction from the 15 feet of damaged conduit and
fiber optic backbone. The damaged optical fibers were "blown out" of
the plastic Microduct tubing inside the buried conduit the same way the fibers
had been "blown in" through the Microduct, using compressed air.
The damaged 40 feet of Microduct tubing was replaced and spliced to the existing
tubing at both ends. Within minutes, new optical fibers were blown in, then
terminated. The network connections were tested, the job was complete.
Total cost of recovery, including new fiber plus labor? About 25% of the
cost of the same job if conventional fiber optic cable instead of blown
fiber had originally been installed as the network backbone. And what’s
the relative time difference between the speed of disaster recovery
operations in this instance – using Blolite infrastructure from BICCGeneral – as
opposed to conservative estimates of the time required to replace the network
if conventional fiber optic cable had originally been installed? One day
(Blolite) versus more than a month (conventional cable).
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