[102292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Macharia)
Mon Feb 4 01:35:33 2008
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:04:09 +0300
From: Raymond Macharia <raymond@accesskenya.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0802032347100.4141@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi,
anyone with a source of unadulterated information from an operational
point of view about this cuts. A search on the Net is springing up a lot
of speculative whodunits.
Reason is, how will the affected regions get round this issue before the
repairs are done. First thought would be to set up satellite links, not
as good but better than nothing.
Raymond
Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
