Unless I am mistaken, that is an old legacy route. I don't think it is a new build. I know at one time Hibernia was selling its undersea link from Halifax to Boston as a back up for that route. On the other hand, there have been some Canadian carrier builds recently so may be it's not legacy.
Regards, Roderick ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-boun...@nanog.org> on behalf of Fletcher Kittredge <fkitt...@gwi.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 10:29 PM To: Clinton Work Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Last Week's Canadian Fiber Cut There is a third route from Halifax -> New Brunswick -> Portland, ME -> [Albany, Boston] On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Clinton Work <clin...@scripty.com> wrote: > I can't speak for the Bell Aliant network, but I'm only aware of two > diverse fiber routes out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax -> New > Brunswick -> Quebec City is the Canadian route and Halifax -> Boston is > the diverse route. > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017, at 01:52 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > 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. > > > > -- Fletcher Kittredge GWI 207-602-1134 www.gwi.net<http://www.gwi.net> GWI: Phone and High Speed Internet services for your Maine ...<http://www.gwi.net/> www.gwi.net GWI Home and Business Phone and High Speed Internet services in Maine. Business Wide Area Networks, Hosted PBX, cloud computing and data center services.
