[102181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Thu Jan 31 05:53:30 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:48:45 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20080131112919.00ab1b50@efes.iucc.ac.il>
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
wrote:
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> 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.
Exactly; which have historically been in the same strategic locations. Suez,
Singapore, Cape Town; it's the strategic map of the British Empire. "Five
strategic keys lock up the world", as Lord Fisher said. (Dover, Gibraltar,
Singapore, Cape Town, and Suez).
The similarity is truly uncanny.
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <<a href="mailto:hank@efes.iucc.ac.il">hank@efes.iucc.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables<br>
intersect. They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each<br>
other when they hit the landing stations.</blockquote><div><br>Exactly; which have historically been in the same strategic locations. Suez, Singapore, Cape Town; it's the strategic map of the British Empire. "Five strategic keys lock up the world", as Lord Fisher said. (Dover, Gibraltar, Singapore, Cape Town, and Suez).<br>
<br>The similarity is truly uncanny.<br><br></div></div><br>
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