[102189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Thu Jan 31 11:37:41 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:35:03 -0500
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
Cc: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>,
"Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE20E4ECC@ernie.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 31, 2008 11:20 AM, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
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> http://www.kisca.org.uk/Web_SWApproaches.pdf
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> And if you enlarge the map, you can see little dots on the lines
> representing the cables that denote repairs.
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> Lots and lots of repairs. Treacherous waters.
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The distances are consistent with repeaters/op amps. And the chart
legend notates the same.
Coincidentally, Telecom Egypt announced a new cable to be built by
Alcatel-Lucent this morning. TE North, which looks like it's going
from Egypt to France, is an 8 pair system (128 x 10Gb/s x 8).
Thanks for your input.
-M<
