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Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Jan 30 13:58:20 2008
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:57:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
If its not one cable, its another cable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/30/asia.internet.outage
Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet
access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.
A fault in the pipeline, which runs between Sicily and Egypt, has
dramatically reduced access in countries including Saudi Arabia, Dubai and
India, leaving millions of workers struggling to get online.
