[102235] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Sat Feb 2 02:59:13 2008
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 02:58:08 -0500
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>,
Martin Hannigan <hannigan@gmail.com>,
"Ahmed Maged (amaged)" <amaged@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080201225626.6c6555d7@yellowstone.machshav.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:56:26PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 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).
beings as i live in dubai, i can also add that over the last two days there
have been some quite strong winds blowing. which i supposed could be a factor
in a ship dragging its anchor across a fiber path.
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