[102199] in North American Network Operators' Group
Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Feb 1 09:38:12 2008
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:07:19 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
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
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/third-undersea-cable-reportedly-cut/story.aspx?guid={1AAB2A79-E983-4E0E-BC39-68A120DC16D9}
"We had another cut today between Dubai and Muscat three hours back.
The cable was about 80G capacity, it had telephone, Internet data,
everything," one Flag official, who declined to be named, told Zawya
Dow Jones.
The cable, known as Falcon, delivers services to countries in the
Mediterranean and Gulf region, he added.
etc etc.
On Jan 31, 2008 10:05 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 11:20 AM, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.kisca.org.uk/Web_SWApproaches.pdf
> >
> > And if you enlarge the map, you can see little dots on the lines
> > representing the cables that denote repairs.
> >
> > Lots and lots of repairs. Treacherous waters.
> >
> >
>
>
> 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<
>
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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
