[102347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hascall Sharp)
Tue Feb 5 16:25:39 2008
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:08:04 -0500
From: Hascall Sharp <chsharp@cisco.com>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4btpj.423934$kS.136183@rtp-news.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
For Lebanon:
Here is the MPT's web site on submarine cables:
http://www.mpt.gov.lb/berytar.htm
It has links to aletar and cadmos as well.
Chip Sharp
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
> Dear Sean;
>
> Do you know how Syria, Jordan and Lebanon get their connectivity ?
> They have dropped off the map today for us. (Or maybe yesterday - I
> wasn't able to pay any attention to this yesterday.)
>
> Our Egyptian audience remains very low, while Iran still seems to be
> unaffected.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> A fourth submarine cable in the middle east was damaged Sunday
>> between Haloul, Qatar and Das, United Arab Emirates.
>>
>> This is in addition to the damage affecting FLAG, SAE-ME-WE4, FALCON
>> cables.
>>
>> Afer reviewing surveillance video of the area, Egypt's ministry of
>> maritime transportation is reporting no ships were near the FLAG or
>> SAE-ME-WE4 cables 12-hours before or after the cable damage near
>> Alexanderia, Egypt. The reason for outage of the cables has
>> not been identified yet.
>>
>>
>
