When the Internet goes dark, it’s hard for us to think about much past Oh god, what am I going to do now? But, behind every outage, there’s a cause.
A wide variety of animals have an affinity for fiber optic cables. In the US, 18% power outages are an outcome of squirrels damaging major fiber optic cable networks.
One such recent incident is as below:
FRD responds to 22 emergency calls in 24 hours
August 5, 2020
James Kon
The Fire and Rescue Department (FRD) received and responded to 22 emergency calls last Sunday, which included three vehicle fires, two electrical fires and one house fire.
The first report of a vehicle fire was received at 2.30am from the Lamunin area involving a hatchback which struck a lamp post. Five personnel led by DSO Roberd from the Lamunin Fire Station were dispatched to the scene and extinguished the fire within two minutes. The driver and passenger escaped unhurt.
Five personnel from the Tutong Fire Station led by ASO Haji Kamaruzaman responded to the second occurrence of a burning vehicle in the Tutong area at 5.07am. Two cars were engulfed in flames, which spread to a nearby semi-detached bungalow built from concrete and with spandex roofing.
The firefighters used a two kg dry powder fire extinguisher to put out the flames issuing from an electrical outlet in the hallway on the upper floor of a two-storey house.
The cause of the fire is being investigated, but it is believed that the sub-main wire was eaten by termites. No one was hurt in the incident.
Similar incident was reported earlier:
Hungry monkeys hindering fiber build out in India
By Sean Kinney, Editor in Chief on April 6, 2015
Fiber apparently is a tasty treat for monkeys, squirrels and other critters
As the global explosion of data demand continues to pick up speed, network operators are racing to extend fiber backbone to keep up with customer demand. Large-scale fiber deployments are costly and subject to regulatory hurdles, which can slow down deployments. But network engineers in India are running into a fairly unique problem: hungry macaque monkeys.
You read that right. Monkeys living in the ancient Indian holy city of Varanasi are steadily chewing through fiber optic cables that are part of an $18 billion national plan to lay more than 430,000 miles of fiber.
The crowded city, home to some 2 million people, cannot accommodate installation of underground cables so installers have had to place the cables essentially in plain sight, along the banks of the Ganges River for instance, according to reports.
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The products are available in the form of a masterbatch which can be incorporated in wires, cables, etc. while manufacturing. This would result in the final cable or wire being rodent and animal repellent. This would be an efficient way of deterring the rodents and animals from chewing the cables and wires and thus negate the possibility of a short circuit.
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