I am just curious about Roger's fiberoptic backbone.

I assume that every major city that Roger's is in, has a fiber optic link coming into it (or leased from some third party).

Does Roger's own their own fiber or do they lease bandwith from Bell (I though Bell at one point owned most of the fiberoptic laid down in this country although that may have changed)? If they own their own fiber, do they have multiple fiberoptic cables just in case somebody accidently severs a cable?

Anybody know what speed (megabytes or gigabytes) it is capable of?

Does Roger's wire up new subdivisions with fiber to the home? I think some folks in N.B. are getting fiber to the home (and if somebody at Rogers knows of any plans to do the same to various cities, let us know).

Just curious....

Rogers has their own fibre, at least in some areas. I just saw a Rogers manhole, when I was in downtown Toronto on Friday. Also, years ago, when I was with Unitel, we'd often use Rogers fibre in the Toronto core. They also have fibre running through the neighbourhoods in their areas. As for inter-city, I couldn't tell you. I wouldn't be surprised if they have some from MTS Alstream, as they used to be part owner of Unitel, which after going bust was eventually bought by MTS.

Fibre bandwidth is huge and essentially determined by what equipment is connected to it. It's also common to use multiple wavelengths to run more than one system on a fibre.

There have been many companies that ran fibre besides Bell. As I mentioned, Rogers and Unitel did, along with Toronto Hydro (The Toronto Hydro network was bought by Cogeco IIRC). MTS Alstream would have inherited many fibres run along the railway tracks from Unitel, in addition to whatever else they or AT&T Canada (another owner of x Unitel) built. There was also a company called "Stream Communications" that would approach a city with an offer to clean & repair the sewers in exchange for the right to run fibre in them. IIRC, Peel region was one of their customers. So, there are many companies with fibre in the ground.

some fibre optic wires also run along the hydro and telephone transmission poles. if you look carefully, you will sometimes see a fibre optical cable, its the lowest and thickest cable hanging from the hydro street poles. sometimes you will see a splice cylinder too. pretty neat eh?