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Home Fibre Optic Network Cable Failure After Accidental Damage

By

alienchow

4mo ago· 4 min readenNews

Summary

A personal account of a home fibre optic network disaster where the author accidentally damaged their fibre cables while retrieving a bike pump from a bomb shelter. The cable sleeves crumbled like cookie crumbs, revealing internal components including metal wires and what appears to be a Kevlar sheath. The situation is particularly dire because the cables were permanently installed under cement flooring in PVC trunking, connecting the server room to various rooms including the home office with critical homelab equipment.

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Like cookie crumbs the fibre cable's sleeve jackets crumbled in my hands.
Before I could even utter 'Oh fuck no', another section of the cable exploded outwards with thin metal wires jutting out from what seems to be like strands of white plastic threads, which I assume is the Kevlar sheath.
A main component of why I was in sheer horror was the fact that I had stupidly buried all of these cables under my cement flooring in PVC trunking from my shelter to all of the rooms in the flat.
If this cable fails, the connection from the server room to a specific room would be permanently severed.
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This morning I woke up and headed to my bomb shelter to grab the bike pump to inflate the tyres on my children’s bikes. The handle got slightly tangled up in the fibre optic cables so I lifted up the cables to free the pump. Like cookie crumbs the fibre c

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