[195515] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Aug 15 15:52:16 2017
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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:52:06 -0400
To: Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Rod Beck =
<rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com> wrote:
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> 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?
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> =
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/concerns-about-backup-=
bell-outage-1.4239064
Perhaps some transatlantic fallback? It looks like the only cable out =
there is the Greenland one.. guessing that=E2=80=99s not very =
competitive? It only gets you to Iceland it seems.
- Jared=
