On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Zwiep, Rick wrote:

It's surprising that in this era of huge fiber capacity with SONET, ATM and MPLS and WDM that a fiber cut should take out an entire province full of users...

Beats me. As one of those users, I did feel it. Everybody else seems to be up and running just fine, so it makes wonder about @home's topology in Ontario.

At one time that fiber link from Toronto to Buffalo was on an unprotected fiber segment, but that was years ago... hmmm

Probably during the good ol' days of "Call before you dig."

rgds - rickz

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