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Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Jan 30 20:59:23 2008

From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:56:42 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:

>If its not one cable, its another cable.
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/30/asia.internet.outage
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>Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without interne=
t
>access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.  =

>

For what its worth, Todd Underwood has a very good overview of the
countries affected by this outage over on the Renesys Blog here:

http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/01/mediterranean_cable_break.shtml

- - ferg

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