Beaver bites off the fiber optic cable and disconnects the Canadian community for a day and a half

According to foreign media reports, a few weeks ago, a beaver in British Columbia, western Canada, bit an optical cable in several places, causing the Internet service of more than 900 residents to be interrupted, and the cable TV signal of more than 60 residents was also interrupted. The Telus engineering team later found the damaged fiber optic cable about 1 meter underground by the creek. Although the fiber optic cable was wrapped by a pipe ten centimeters later, it was still difficult to escape the poison port.

Telus said that there are signs that measures to protect fiber optic cables appear to have failed to prevent beavers from approaching. The beaver bypasses protective measures by virtue of its instinct. The staff found a dam built by a beaver nearby and found that the beaver digs a hole down the stream bed to the location where the cable is buried. The cable is buried 3 feet deep underground and protected by a 4.5-inch thick conduit.

Telus International was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. It mainly provides users with innovative digital services. The users involve more than 600 companies in the fields of technology, games, communications, media, e-commerce, financial technology, tourism, and healthcare.

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