[102339] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Coluccio)
Tue Feb 5 11:14:13 2008
From: Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:11:13 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Today's MIT Technology Review newsletter contains an article by John Borlan=
d,
aided in large part by Tim Strong of Telegeography Research, covering the r=
ecent
spate of submarine cable failures in the ME:
Analyzing the Internet Collapse
By John Borland | Feb 5, 2008
MIT Technology Review
Multiple fiber cuts to undersea cables show the fragility of the Internet a=
t its
choke points.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20152/?nlid=3D854
--
A few afterthoughts after receiving a number of offlist mailings responding=
to my
earlier post of yesterday concerning the naval submarine, Jimmy Carter:=20
My comments weren't intended as disparagement or as a means of denigrating =
most
of the excellent material that was posted on this subject. They were, inste=
ad,
merely cautionary in nature, intended primarily for students who frequent N=
ANOG
for research and general interest, after noticing some folk lore and widely=
-held
misconceptions being introduced into the thread. Upon re-reading those, how=
ever,
they turn out to be mostly trivial, at worst. Besides, some would argue that
passing down folk lore to the next generation of practitioners is not only =
a good
thing, but a necessary thing, lest we get too caught up in being precise ;)=
=20
On my posting about the naval submarine Jimmy Carter, that was half-intende=
d as
entertainment, although some of the dubious-seeming points made in that art=
icle
have now been borne out in later releases by Egypt's telecommunications min=
istry
in asserting that, indeed, there were no vessels in the waters surrounding =
the
breaks, as is also noted in the reference MIT TR article above.
=20
Frank A. Coluccio
DTI Consulting Inc.
347-526-6788
=20
