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“A number of flora and fauna cause damage to fiber. Some birds really like the Kevlar reinforcing material and think it makes lovely nests for their babies, so they peck away at fiber-optic cables to get at that Kevlar material. Rodents such as beavers like to sharpen their teeth on exposed cable . Several different types of ants seem to enjoy the plastic shielding in their diet, so they nibble at the underground fibers. Sharks have been known to chomp on cable near the repeating points. A plant called the Christmas tree plant thinks that fiber-optic cable is a tree root and wraps itself around it very tightly and chokes it off.”
pp.80-1, Telecommunications Essentials: The Complete Global Source

Telecommunications Essentials: the complete global source by Goleniewski & Wilson

Telecommunications Essentials: The Complete Global Source
by Lillian Goleniewski & Kitty Wilson Jarrett

Addison Wesley, 2006, pbk
ISBN-10: 0321427610/ISBN-13: 978-0321427618
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