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 <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > > >> On Aug 15, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Rod Beck <rod.b...@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
