[102213] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Feb 1 17:37:51 2008
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:33:29 -0500
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: "Ahmed Maged (amaged)" <amaged@cisco.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <0BB7A1080B7DBD4494E09FF171D2ACEAF3A3A4@xmb-ams-33c.emea.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Feb 1, 2008 2:25 PM, Ahmed Maged (amaged) <amaged@cisco.com> wrote:
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> "Does look normal to me" is far from a global conspiracy theory.
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> Thank you for the translation but I think you got it wrong.
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I agree, there should be a sanity check as I understand that they are
within close proximity of each other. Two ships slipping anchors and
causing cable breaks in the same area is odd, but if there's a storm
in the area, that would not be that much of a surprise. There should
be some logic to the madness.
I think that the moral of the story is that "more" operators should
try to better understand what diversity means beyond the metro. The
challenge is getting the information. The Teleography series of
internet/sub maps are interesting. They don't demonstrate diversity
though, since they show figurative routing. Those nice and straight
lines are a pipe dream.
-M<
-M<
