Monkey bite Internet: animals consume fiber-optic cables in India Bashny.Net

Indian authorities launched a $ 18-billion plan provincial Internet revolution and faced with the problem in the form of monkeys: animal bite and tear fiber optic cables. Monkeys live in the temples of Varanasi, which has 3,000 years, and are sacred animals - this complicates the problem, According to Reuters .




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"We can not move the temples. We can not modify, everything is already built. Monkeys destroy all the wires and eat all the wires! "- Says engineer AP Srivastava, responsible for carrying out the Internet in Varanasi.

Laying of cables runs along the shores of the Ganges. According to Srivastava, just two months after the installation of cables monkey chewed them so that everything had to be replaced. The team is looking for alternative ways, but in the densely populated town, home to more than two million people, the engineers do not have the possibility to lay cables underground. On the other hand, to drive away the monkeys, let alone catch them will not work - local residents and representatives of the religious community are outraged by such behavior.

Not only interfere with the monkey to equip the city access to the network: the problem in short supply of electricity. Daily power outage can last for several hours in Varanasi and in most of India. The government plans to lay 700 thousand kilometers of cable broadband Internet access in 250,000 villages and to build 100 new "smart cities" in 2020.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/248544/