Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Tue Aug 15 19:52:06 UTC 2017


> On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com> 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?
> 
> 
> 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’s not very competitive?  It only gets you to Iceland it seems.

- Jared


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