Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut

[Paul Stewart <paul () paulstewart org>]

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 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Let’s not forget that all POTS and cell service was offline during the outage - even for local and 911 service. 
>
> There is some high level of dependence on some equipment in Quebec and/or westward which should not be there.
>
> 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. 
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 16:14 Paul Stewart <paul () paulstewart org <mailto:paul () 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 …
>
>
> > On Aug 15, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net <mailto:jared () puck nether net>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Rod Beck <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com <mailto: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 
> > > <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