Global Crossing fiber cut

11-11-2009 -

This morning, a fiber cut in the network of one of our uplink providers caused a small disruption in our services in Rotterdam.

Information from Global Crossing NOC

Location of fibre cut is at Leiden which is  71.434 km from Amsterdam on the 113km section between Amsterdam & Rotterdam. This has been caused by civil contractors carrying out Asphalt road surfacing. They have carried the surfacing too far & have damaged a 20 metre section of ducting & all fibres inside it. The site of the break has to have the heavy machinery cleared away & new ducting installed before fibres can be spliced.  Estimated time for ducting to be put in place is 17:00 CET. Fibres hope to be re-spliced by 18:00 CET.

All i3D services are routed through our other connections at the moment.