On Tue, 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-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.
For background on the Greenland Connect cable, the UKNOF presentation I presented (built by Heller, Harland, and I) in 2009 is here at http://bit.ly/GrConnect - You can get past Iceland for sure. Just not for free. (Honorable mentions in all of this for AMS-IX, LINX, Nick Hilliard, Andy Davidson and Will Hargrave. Remco van Mook got the Golden Jökulhlaup for his part). The route was cost prohibitive as you guessed. There was reach-ability from the EU to CA via RVK and GOH, The built paths were CPH-RVK-GOH-YHZ and LON-RVK-GOH-YHZ. While the GOH route were most prohibitive, the RVK paths less so. It was much cheaper to route LON to LGA via Hibernia. I like it as a back up path. So did a few banks. But cost. Do I think this is a viable path? Yes. Will it ever come down in cost? I'd go back to try this again. Maybe things have changed? Best, -M<