[102313] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Feb 4 14:09:16 2008
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:53:09 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0802032220050.3974@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:56:39 -0500 (EST)
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
>
> Caution: upon further research it appears there may be some language
> misscommunication in some of the reports; and some of the outages may
> be multiple reports of the same incidents.
>
>
>
> http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February115.xml§ion=theuae
> Confirming international media reports, an Etisalat official
> yesterday told Khaleej Times that the cable network was not
> completely severed, though the damage slowed down the already
> affected system. He did not give any further details regarding the
> cause of damage. [...]
> This is the third incident of its kind in the area since January 30
> since the cables were first damaged in the Mediterranean and then
> off the coast of Dubai, causing widespread disruption to Internet and
> international telephone services in Egypt, Gulf Arab states and
> south Asia.
>
> FLAG restoration update information:
> http://www.flagtelecom.com/media/PDF_files/Submarine%20Cable%20Cut%20Update%20Bulletin%20Release%20030208.pdf
>
http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=21567&email=html
is probably as authoritative a source as one can find for what
happened. It says there were two cuts in the Mediterranean (SEA-ME-WE 4
near Marseille) and Flag Telecom's Europe-Asia cable near Alexandria.
The Flag Telecom Falcon cable was cut between UAE and Oman, and the
Qatar-UAE cable failed due to a power issue.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
