Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

Thu Aug 17 09:51:48 UTC 2017

Yeah good point Chris …. Got thinking about this too much from an IP perspective :)

> On Aug 16, 2017, at 6:29 PM, Christopher Morrell <christopher.morrell.nanog at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Let’s not forget that all POTS and cell service was offline during the outage - even for local and 911 service. 
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> There is some high level of dependence on some equipment in Quebec and/or westward which should not be there.
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> A double fault like that should not knock out all local service for 4 out of 10 provinces. I would expect that an architectural review is under way. 
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> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 16:14 Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org <mailto:paul at paulstewart.org>> wrote:
> It wasn’t 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 …
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> > On Aug 15, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net <mailto:jared at puck.nether.net>> wrote:
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> >> On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com <mailto:rod.beck at 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 <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’s not very competitive?  It only gets you to Iceland it seems.
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> > - Jared
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