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To: axial who wrote (45996)	8/7/2017 7:39:10 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Guys, Did you realize there was a major disruption in internet and traditional communications across Eastern Canada this past Friday? Supposedly this was reported as a fiber cut, but I was in Nova Scotia for a family reunion and want to describe the outage. What was impacted? Bell and Tellus wireless was intermittent - and on Friday mostly down, Rogers stayed up Most Land lines did not work within the Maritimes and Newfoundland 911 was offline in Newfoundland 911 did not work in Northern Nova Scotia (Rogers cell phones could call Rogers, but not land lines or emergency services) Police and Emergency RF systems were down All banks except RBC were closed. I have an account there and went, but there security systems were offline - so by protocol only 1 client was permitted in the branch at a time Airlines cancelled flights - airport towers were impacted as were Air Traffic control systems Fascinated by this (while waiting for a niece to fly in) - I ran a trace via ThousandEyes and it could find ways to get through, but on Friday was regularly getting 60-70% packet loss for traces terminating on Government of NS Servers in Halifax. It was reported as two coincidental fiber cuts. If true that would have to be combined with over centralization call control systems. How would that work? Newfoundland and the Maritimes used to have phone companies per Province, but now are all under the Bell system in Canada. If all digital call control was centralized in a Ontario or Quebec based Data Center and your only Internet was Bell - you would be down. If you had diverse Internet - you could be losing data (as my test showed), but would not be operating well. However, when I was at the RBC branch - their computers (Laptops and Teller systems) had the Retail Banking application crash and had to restart it. Another interesting note was that old analog phone systems continued to work within areas (i.e my sister could call my Aunt 2 miles down the road, but could not contact anyone that would be connected via a digital exchange). So what do you think - a Ukraine level event being run as a test against North American infrastructure or really stupid design exposed by the 'coincidental' fiber cuts?