[102218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Feb 1 18:04:37 2008
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:56:26 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
Cc: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>,
"Ahmed Maged \(amaged\)"
<amaged@cisco.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE20E4F51@ernie.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:42:02 -0000
"Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
> Well, when you have all these cables running through narrow straits
> or converging to the same stretch of beach, it does not strike me as
> at all extraordinary.
>
But they aren't near each other.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html
says that the first two cuts were in the Mediterranean, near Marseille
and Alexandria; the third was in the Persian Gulf, near Dubai
(http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Internet-Outages.html).
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
