Beavers chew through fiber optic cables, leaving Canadian community without internet for a day and a half

According to foreign media reports, a few weeks ago, a beaver in British Columbia, western Canada, bit through optical cables in several places, causing Internet service interruptions in more than 900 residents' homes and forcing cable TV signals of more than 60 households to be interrupted. The engineering team of operator Telus later found the damaged optical cable about 1 meter underground by the creek. Although the optical cable was wrapped in a pipe more than ten centimeters thick, it still could not escape the poisonous mouth.

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Telus said there were signs that measures to protect the fiber-optic cables did not seem to be successful in keeping beavers away. The beavers, with their innate instincts, bypassed the protection measures. Staff found a nearby beaver dam and discovered that the beavers dug down along the stream bed to the cable location. The cable was buried 3 feet 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 innovative digital services to users, including more than 600 companies in the fields of technology, games, communications, media, e-commerce, financial technology, tourism, healthcare, etc.