[103622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Wed Apr 9 00:19:13 2008
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:15:39 -0400
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0804082335070.27046@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> Awesome, so could anyone buy a copy of the same images? Which satellite
> do you think happened to be taking images of the area with these ships
> near the time the cables were broken? Which company is selling that set
> of images?
Wouldn't it be reasonable that, when the break occurred, they used their
optical time domain reflectometer to compute the approximate location of
the break, and then just called around for whoever had the best images,
or who could quickly task the satellite to get an image?
--Patrick
