[195592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher Kittredge)
Mon Aug 28 16:37:33 2017
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From: Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:49:28 -0400
To: Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com>
wrote:
> Unless I am mistaken, that is an old legacy route. I don't think it is a
> new build. I know at one time Hibernia was selling its undersea link from
> Halifax to Boston as a back up for that route. On the other hand, there
> have been some Canadian carrier builds recently so may be it's not legacy.
>
No, this is not a legacy route. It was a new route constructed in 2012 as
part of the Federal BTOP ARRA program. It is a 1,100 mile high strand count
fiber ring around Maine with multiple border crossings. Dozens of carriers
are using it.
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Fletcher Kittredge
GWI
