[195525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Stewart)
Wed Aug 16 16:13:01 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org>
In-Reply-To: <BF4867E0-A8B3-4A8E-8A4A-7466166BDB99@puck.nether.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:56:16 -0400
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
It wasn=E2=80=99t an issue getting transatlantic - it was an issue =
within a relatively small region in Eastern Canada talking to the rest =
of the world for certain carriers. There were several smaller =
carriers/providers not affected - just happens the local incumbent telco =
and one of their larger competitors got knocked out =E2=80=A6=20
> On Aug 15, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> =
wrote:
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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
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> 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.
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> - Jared
