Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

[Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us>]

Does this sound like a dry run to anyone else? Or did I forget to take 
my anti-paranoia pills today?


On 08/15/2017 06:05 PM, David Charlebois wrote:
> 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."