Constructing a brand new dark fiber network over long distance requires an insane amount of work, plus a ton of legal and administrative issues to deal with. O

Constructing a brand new dark fiber network over long distance requires an insane amount of work, plus a ton of legal and administrative issues to deal with. OVH had started working on the construction of a second dark fiber network a long time ago, with at least the capacity of the previous one. Due to a strange quirk of fate, they had planned to complete the construction within the next few days. After the fiber cut, they not only tried to locate and repair the cut pairs of cable, but also simultaneously rushed to finish the construction of the new network. They made in hours what was initially planned to require at least another week. The services are now back online at full speed, because they managed to finish installing the new cables, test them and connect the whole data center right away to the new network. And it worked.