Pesky Animals

The Internet is fast becoming the lifeblood for modern societies. It connects telecommunications, archives data, enables remote sensing and a myriad of developing technologies. What makes everything possible are high speed connections through copper DSL, coax cable and glass fiber optics. For all of its importance, the entire infrastructure is not only susceptible to natural disaster but also common animals like spiders and crows. It seems the material used to create the cabling's outer sheath makes both a tasty consumable for the arachnids and excellent nesting material for the avians.