[195513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clinton Work)
Tue Aug 15 14:59:29 2017
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From: Clinton Work <clinton@scripty.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 12:59:26 -0600
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My understanding is that the Bell Aliant outage was a double fault
situation. Bell Aliant had a fiber cut on one of their fiber routes
early in the morning and then they had a fault on the diverse fiber
route before the first trouble could be repaired.
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Rod Beck wrote:
> Did we ever get any resolution on why this was such a big outage? Appears
> there were two fiber cuts. Were the fibers damaged in the same conduit?
> Is this a collapsed ring scenario?
>