Fiber Cut by construction crew leads to ground stop and delays at several major airports

A Federal Aviation Administration equipment outage is causing significant flight delays at five major Northeast airports after construction contractors dug up and cut a Verizon cable, the company said in a statement to CNN.

The impacted airports are Newark Liberty International, Teterboro, Philadelphia International, LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International.

The Verizon statement said, specifying the telecommunications company was not responsible for the damage.

The outage comes as hundreds of diplomats and world leaders are meeting at the United Nations New York headquarters for the General Assembly beginning Tuesday.

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@f5 well, if it was a ring, why did it go down?

Redundancy for these situations is built out of different COs. Usually on ring spans. A redundant circuit is never built on the same cable. Entrance or otherwise. Whomever, stated this in this thread. I certainly hope you’re on he next layoff slate.

Cut fiber cable must have been located by HeadLIC !!!

The problem started with an initial circuit failure and “when it went to flip into the backup, we discovered the backup fiber had a break,” FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters on the sidelines of an event showcasing a new artificial intelligence-powered air traffic control tool in Washington, D.C.

Public transportation system NJ Transit said a construction crew working on a rail project between New Brunswick and North Brunswick, New Jersey, “accidentally severed a fiber-optic cable while working at the site.” The transit agency said the crew was operating about 10 feet from utility markings.

The circuit and backup feed loss were affecting the Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON, facility, in Philadelphia, which guides planes in and out of Newark and Philadelphia.

This is crazy!

Wow more cuts leading up to 9/24 which is gonna have lots of payroll cuts.

Excellent, more of this to come!

@ag you would think with a circuit this important, the backup would take a completely different path.

@a1 A tech named Claude will repair the damage..lol

@ad the people in charge of making sure this doesn't happen were probably layed off. There is the correlation!!!!!

@a8 only redundancy is usually in the vz network once it leaves a facility thats it ,unless the customer pay for a back up circuit, Alot of the times the those back ups leave in the same fiber ,just a different fiber pair .

@a3 redundancy for a customer provided circuit is sold as an upgrade. If the customer wants more protection they have to pay for it per SLA

@OP I missed the part where this is LAYOFF related.

@a1 Yes. A I recommends Metamucil.

An aging circuit slated for replacement failed Monday, and officials discovered a break in the backup fiber when the system switched to backup mode, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford told CNN affiliate WUSA. A new circuit was expected to be installed Monday afternoon

Where's the built-in redundancy that such important fibers should have?

Is an AI fiber restoration crew being deployed to repair the damage?

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