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Re: Fiber cut in Ontario, Canada cutsoff @home users

  • From: William F. Maton
  • Date: Fri Mar 09 10:10:01 2001 
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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