[102290] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Feb 4 00:41:43 2008
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 00:38:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Todd Underwood <todd-nanog@renesys.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080204012954.GF16313@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Todd Underwood wrote:
> there has has been a lot of speculation that this is all some US
> prelude to war with iran. while i don't claim to know much about
> whether that makes any sense, i do know that if they're trying to
> disconnect iran from the internet, they're doing a lousy job:
An extremely poor job if that was the intent. According to SLAC,
throughput to Iran actually improved.
https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean
If the intent was to cut off Iran, they're picking the wrong cables.
TAE goes across the northern part of Iran
http://taeint.net/en/network/middle/
FLAG via UAE, SE-ME-WE-3 (not 4), ITOUR and KAFOS
Sometimes concicidences are concidences.
