[102282] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Feb 3 20:26:23 2008
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:22:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: "Marcus H. Sachs" <marc@sachsfamily.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <0f4f01c866c6$f0e61f30$d2b25d90$@net>
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i03tUdyj8wf2Xa9P4trWEjqAJdyQ
DOHA (AFP) . An undersea telecoms cable linking Qatar to the United Arab
Emirates was damaged, disrupting services, telecommunications provider
Qtel said on Sunday, the latest such incident in less than a week.
The cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE
island of Das on Friday, Qtel's head of communications Adel al Mutawa told
AFP.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Marcus H. Sachs wrote:
> Sean, do you have any URLs with additional info on the new cut? Questions
> are being asked.
>
> Marc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Sean
> Donelan
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 6:52 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
