[35456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in Ontario, Canada cutsoff @home users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William F. Maton)
Fri Mar 9 10:05:43 2001
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:00:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "William F. Maton" <wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca>
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Zwiep, Rick wrote:
> It's surprising that in this era of huge fiber capacity with SONET, ATM and
> MPLS and WDM that a fiber cut should take out an entire province full of
> users...
Beats me. As one of those users, I did feel it. Everybody else seems to
be up and running just fine, so it makes wonder about @home's topology in
Ontario.
> At one time that fiber link from Toronto to Buffalo was on an unprotected
> fiber segment, but that was years ago... hmmm
Probably during the good ol' days of "Call before you dig."
> rgds - rickz
wfms
