[102341] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Feb 5 11:56:16 2008
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:45:48 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3516.1202227873@dticonsulting.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:11:13 -0600
Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com> wrote:
>
> Today's MIT Technology Review newsletter contains an article by John
> Borland, aided in large part by Tim Strong of Telegeography Research,
> covering the recent 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 at its choke points.
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20152/?nlid=854
>
Good article; thanks. My own summary is at
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-02/2008-02-04.html
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
