JF, c¹est bon ça! This is good point JF, according to http://www.acwr.com/economic-development/rail-maps/canadian-national we seem to have a single rail on top of Lac Superior. Other than that, it¹s diverse. Is there diverse train routes and associated fibre routes? Which provider follow CP and CN??
Jacques On 2017-10-11, 3:04 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Jean-Francois Mezei" <nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> wrote: >On 2017-10-11 11:40, Jacques Latour wrote: >> Does anyone know if there's fibre resiliency between Calgary and >>Toronto over the Great lakes, I thinking redundancy could be achieved by >>using two paths one following the railroad and the other following the >>Trans-Canadian highway. Does anyone know if there is fibre following >>the Trans-Canadian highway and who owns it? > > >More than likely one around lake Superior on CP Rail tracks, and the >other along the CN tracks further north. > >Zayo in Canada is formerly CNCP telecommunications, and they are likely >first to have fibre along tracks. > >Since the Trans Canada highway in that part of Ontario is actually a 2 >lane rural road, I am not sure people would have laid fibre along it >knowing the progressive work to widen it might require frequent >relocation of the fibre.