Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

[Rod Beck <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com>]

In other words, bad luck. Probability dictates if enough time transpires, every bad thing will happen. 😝


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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> on behalf of Clinton Work <clinton () scripty com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 8:59 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

My understanding is that the Bell Aliant outage was a double fault
situation.   Bell Aliant had a fiber cut on one of their fiber routes
early in the morning and then they had a fault on the diverse fiber
route before the first trouble could be repaired.

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Rod Beck 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?