[195392] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bell outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald Koch)
Fri Aug 4 17:06:42 2017
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From: Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 17:06:36 -0400
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On 4 August 2017 at 16:54, Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com> wrote:
> Well, imagine what happens when you have a body of water like Lake Ontario
> separating the key hubs on each side of the border, 151 Front Street and
> 350 Main Street. The fiber is probably stacked parallel around the lake and
> at certain points is collapsed into one right of way.
>
To generalise - most of Canada's population lives within 160 km of the US
border. That's a 8800 km long, but very skinny piece of territory, and that
makes finding geographically diverse routes ... challenging.
--
Harald Koch (with CA*net in the 1990s :)
