On Tue, 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. > > 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<
