[102182] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Thu Jan 31 07:52:31 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:48:24 -0500
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@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>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 31, 2008 4:30 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.
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> -Hank
They aren't that diverse in the water either and many cables cross
each other and cluster before they hit landing stations including out
in the middle of the sea. The Teleography maps, for example, are not
route maps, they are showing a cable A and Z end with a relative
route. The International Cable Protection Committee has some literal
maps available that show just how much of a mess it all is.
US East Coast to UK West Coast is a great example.
-M<
