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> 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> wrote:
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-be...
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