Re: Bell outage

[Harald Koch <chk () pobox com>]

On 4 August 2017 at 16:54, Rod Beck <rod.beck () unitedcablecompany com> wrote:

> Well, imagine what happens when you have a body of water like Lake Ontario
> separating the key hubs on each side of the border, 151 Front Street and
> 350 Main Street. The fiber is probably stacked parallel around the lake and
> at certain points is collapsed into one right of way.

To generalise - most of Canada's population lives within 160 km of the US
border. That's a 8800 km long, but very skinny piece of territory, and that
makes finding geographically diverse routes ... challenging.

-- 
Harald Koch (with CA*net in the 1990s :)