Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

Wed Aug 16 01:05:04 UTC 2017

Just read this on http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/bell-aliant-says-
double-cable-cut-that-led-to-cell-outages-was-perfect-storm-1.3547018

"Bell spokesman Nathan Gibson says the first cut was by a highway
construction crew near Drummondville, Que.

He says service wasn't impacted in any significant way because of
redundancy in the network until a second major cut near Richibucto, N.B.,
by a logging company in a densely forested location.

He says the second cut was difficult to access and took some time to locate
precisely, and the site's inaccessibility slowed the arrival of heavy
equipment and repair crews."

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:04 PM, JASON BOTHE <jbothe at me.com> wrote:

> Interesting enough, we did not lose connectivity to our offices in PEI, so
> I assume there is some diversity from that point in the Bell network.
>
> J~
>
> > On 15, Aug 2017, at 3:37 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Well Hibernia had those routes. I thought it would have been the 360
> terrestrial cable and Hibernia's underwater cable from Halifax to their
> Boston landing station.
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> on behalf of Clinton Work <
> clinton at scripty.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:07 PM
> > To: nanog at nanog.org
> > Subject: Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut
> >
> > I can't speak for the Bell Aliant network, but I'm only aware of two
> > diverse fiber routes out of Halifax, Nova Scotia.   Halifax -> New
> > Brunswick -> Quebec City is the Canadian route and Halifax -> Boston is
> > the diverse route.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017, at 01:52 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
>
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