[102190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Jan 31 11:54:31 2008
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:48:57 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>,
"Hank Nussbacher"
<hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>,
"Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2d106eb50801310835h377e4afdi783b288261ea89c9@mail.gmail.com>
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Today's NY Times reports that the problem was caused by two
near-simultaneous cable failures:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html