[102280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sun Feb 3 19:40:05 2008
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0802031841050.3501@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:33:21 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Dear Sean;
Do you know how Syria, Jordan and Lebanon get their connectivity ?
They have dropped off the map today for us. (Or maybe yesterday - I
wasn't able to pay any attention to this yesterday.)
Our Egyptian audience remains very low, while Iran still seems to be
unaffected.
Regards
Marshall
On Feb 3, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>
> A fourth submarine cable in the middle east was damaged Sunday
> between Haloul, Qatar and Das, United Arab Emirates.
>
> This is in addition to the damage affecting FLAG, SAE-ME-WE4, FALCON
> cables.
>
> Afer reviewing surveillance video of the area, Egypt's ministry of
> maritime transportation is reporting no ships were near the FLAG or
> SAE-ME-WE4 cables 12-hours before or after the cable damage near
> Alexanderia, Egypt. The reason for outage of the cables has
> not been identified yet.
>
>
