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Cows causing Google network outage

Urs Hölzle shared an unusual technical problem that causing frequent short outages on a multi-terabit fiber path.

Erdem Yasar by Erdem Yasar
May 22, 2020
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Network outages can be caused by many different situations, such as power failures or rough weather. But Google is having an unusual problem in Oregon. Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure Urs Hölzle stated on his Twitter account that the short outages in Google’s network is caused by cows, and shared a picture related to it. The fiber line, supposed to be on top of a power line, somehow fallen to the ground and whenever a cow steps on it, the cable is bent and causes short outages.

Frequent short outages

Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure, Urs Hölzle
Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure, Urs Hölzle

This is not the first time an animal is damaging a network cable, sharks and squirrels caused similar damages before, but this is probably the first network outage caused by a herd of cows. Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure, Urs Hölzle said,

“Ok here’s a new one: did you know that cows can cause network outages? Don’t laugh, it happened to us. The beginning of the story: recently, we noticed frequent short outages (“flaps”) on a multi-terabit fiber path through Oregon. This link is an aerial fiber link (fiber is strung along the path of a high-voltage power line). Such links have lower reliability because storms, trees, ice, and the occasional hunter can damage them. But this time we found something new: the fiber line had fallen to the ground yet continued to work just fine. But recently a farmer had started grazing a herd of cows nearby. And whenever they stepped on the fiber link, they bent it enough to cause a blip. Don’t believe me? Here’s a picture capturing the situation: the power line, the fiber on the ground, and a cow in the background.”

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Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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