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Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut


From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:52:06 -0400


On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck () 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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