Breezeline Outage

[Kyle]

Is Breezeline in the "Transition" business now?

 

[RoseRed]

Is Breezeline in the "Transition" business now?

Maybe?

 

[Ken King]

How fast they did get it back online tells me that that snarled mess in the pic wasnt the issue. No damn way could that mess have been repaired that fast.

How so? It probably took that long to redirect those impacted by the "breakage" to other servers/networks that weren't impacted.

 

[Sneakers]

How so? It probably took that long to redirect those impacted by the "breakage" to other servers/networks that weren't impacted.

Alternate logical routing.

 

[Clem72]

Arc welded?

Maybe it's different, but fiber used in aircraft is more or less glued end to end.

Fusion splicing.

Though large fiber bundles have specialized connectors so they can disconnect a large section and replace. They can fit 4k fibers in 1.5" so it's not like it was "one cable" that broke, it could have been thousands given that picture they provided.

As for aircraft, last time I saw any (granted this was 10+ years ago) they were using a plastic fiber and you "glued" them together with an index matching gel.

 

[Gilligan]

As for aircraft, last time I saw any (granted this was 10+ years ago) they were using a plastic fiber and you "glued" them together with an index matching gel.

We used similar to terminate the FO in our military vessel control systems. Cut, polish, glue...measure..repeat as neccessary..

 

[DoWhat]

We used similar to terminate the FO in our military vessel control systems. Cut, polish, glue...measure..repeat as neccessary..

Fiber in a Military aircraft (prop) is not a very good idea.
Been there done it, nothing but problems.

 

[Gilligan]

Fiber in a Military aircraft (prop) is not a very good idea.
Been there done it, nothing but problems.

Frankly..its never been a real hot idea in the naval applications we've done. We've reverted back to a shielded CAT cable whenever we can.

 

[gemma_rae]

Fusion splicing.

This is how I did it. Loose tube, tedious work.

I understand it's mostly mass fusion now with ribbon cable.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Don't know what's going on, but Breezeline internet is running at dial-up speeds today.
Am in Pembrooke off Willows Rd.

 

[Sneakers]

Don't know what's going on, but Breezeline internet is running at dial-up speeds today.
Am in Pembrooke off Willows Rd.

I'm seeing a major slowdown too, but only on this forum. Everything else seems to be fine, including the SoMD Classifieds.

 

[spr1975wshs]

I'm seeing a major slowdown too, but only on this forum. Everything else seems to be fine, including the SoMD Classifieds.

Quora dot com and GMail, too.

 

[ginwoman]

All mine is slow today. It started last night. I just reset the modem (unplugged for 5 minutes). Right now, knock on wood, it is better. I had called them and it was a 30 minute wait for customer service so that's why I did the reset. Fingers crossed.

 

[RoseRed]

I'm seeing a major slowdown too, but only on this forum. Everything else seems to be fine, including the SoMD Classifieds.

Same. Just the forums, everything else is fine.

 

[Sneakers]

Same. Just the forums, everything else is fine.

I'm on StarLink, and for some reason my POP is in Georgia, so the number of hops to get back to SoMD is ludicrous. I wasn't sure if it was my networking or SoMD, since everything else was ok.

 

[RoseRed]

It's a gazillion times worse today.

 

[Clem72]

Frankly..its never been a real hot idea in the naval applications we've done. We've reverted back to a shielded CAT cable whenever we can.

Seems counter-intuitive. Even shielded you're likely to get interference from radar, your motor alternator, other high power sources. A nice bendy piece of glass (or plastic) is waterproof and can coexist within confined spaces with your other sensative equipment.

 

[Gilligan]

Seems counter-intuitive. Even shielded you're likely to get interference from radar, your motor alternator, other high power sources. A nice bendy piece of glass (or plastic) is waterproof and can coexist within confined spaces with your other sensative equipment.

The EMI benefits were huge. That's the whole reason we went FO back 25 years ago or more. The problems have all been reliability of the FO network...and lack of it.

 

[Sneakers]

Seems counter-intuitive. Even shielded you're likely to get interference from radar, your motor alternator, other high power sources. A nice bendy piece of glass (or plastic) is waterproof and can coexist within confined spaces with your other sensative equipment.

The vibration is fiber optics worst enemy.

 

[Clem72]

The vibration is fiber optics worst enemy.

I believe this is why we had the extra-large plastic POF on the aircraft. Handled vibration MUCH better than the tiny single-mode glass stuff.