[102180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Jan 31 04:36:22 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:30:34 +0200
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0801310358330.22976@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 04:13 AM 31-01-08 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
>What makes this incident more interesting, as I indicated if its not one
>cable its another cable, was the double international cable cuts.
>Likewise, what made Tawain 2006 interesting wasn't an earthquake affected
>a cable, but there were multiple cable cuts in the region.
>
>Quick, everyone get out your international cable maps and speculate
>where in the world the next double (or triple, quad, etc) cable cut
>could happen. Due to regional politics, I don't think there are many
>overland geographic diverse routes between countries to backup the
>undersea routes. If I remember the Wired article, FLAG did try to
>build some overland geographic diversity through the region.
I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables
intersect. They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each
other when they hit the landing stations.
-Hank
