[102171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Jan 30 21:23:03 2008
In-Reply-To: <20080130.175642.6346.0@webmail01.vgs.untd.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:20:09 -0500
To: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
What I see from our Cogent transit is that Egypt has completely
fallen off the map, with a normally consistent traffic gone to zero,
but traffic to Iran, Iraq, the GCC, India and Pakistan and even Yemen
doesn't seem to be affected, at least not noticeably.
Regards
Marshall
On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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>> 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
>> internet
>> access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.
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> For what its worth, Todd Underwood has a very good overview of the
> countries affected by this outage over on the Renesys Blog here:
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> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/01/mediterranean_cable_break.shtml
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> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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