Posted: Fri 1st Jun 2018

‘Farmer/Fibre interface problem’ blamed for Industrial Estate internet outage

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This article is old - Published: Friday, Jun 1st, 2018

Parts of Wrexham Industrial Estate were without their super fast internet connections today, after a suspected cable-slice incident has knocked out the feeds.

Update 2: As of mid afternoon we are told the Industrial Estate is back online!

Update: The issue occurred close to Stretford in Manchester, and as of midday we are advised a ‘splice’ of a cable is underway and a fix is due some point this afternoon.

Original information below…

Wrexham.com’s IT expert James gave us some more detailed technical information: “There’s been a farmer-fibre interface problem near Manchester”.

A story on El Reg explains the suspected reason as a ‘trencher slices through critical cable’, that has also affected connectivity to a data centre in St Asaph with other updates saying a farmer digging a 2m trench caused the issue.

Zayo, who run the backbone fibre network affected, have been approached for comment.

Last week the Industrial Estate was hit by a different outage, that time a vehicle had crashed into BT equipment meaning broadband connections were taken offline.

Top image: Zayo’s local network map showing their Long Hual Lit Fiber in orange and the Metro Lit in blue.



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