By: Travis Archie<\/p>\n
After about 30 hours of no service, the internet crisis at Gardner Webb has been temporarily fixed. Around 5 p.m. Wednesday, Internet access slowly became available to faculty devices and then to the student devices. Now many people have questions about the outage and rumors have developed.<\/p>\n
The company that formally supplied Gardner Webb with all its wireless and wired internet services was RST, a fiber optics networking company. Fiber optics are strands of pure glass that are as thin as the human hair. These fibers carry digital data over great distances. This is a newer and faster way of sending data than using traditional copper wire.<\/p>\n
Since fiber-optics are new there are still things that are unknown. RST has been around for about two decades and had begun to switch to fiber optics in Mid-March of 2014 to compete with their competition.<\/p>\n
RST is stationed in Shelby, N.C. and in 2014 spent, \u201ctens of millions of dollars to set over 3100 miles of fiber optics across North Carolina,\u201d said Chief Executive Dan Limerick to Andrew Kenney of newsobserver.com.<\/p>\n
It has hardly even been a full year since the switch to fiber-optics and RST has already encountered a problem. On the RST website under the Technology tab, it explains their 100 Percent Underground Installation procedure.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur network is installed in high-density, poly-ethylene conduit \u2013 buried underground below gas, electric, water and sewer lines to ensure maximum security, reliability and weather protection,\u201d said the RST Fiber Optics Networking Company.<\/p>\n
Many people have asked, \u201chow did this line get cut and who did it?\u201d When searching for answers with RST there was no comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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