[116590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sat-3 cut?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sun Aug 9 15:21:31 2009
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 08/08/2009 18:09, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Not in a long time. My memory is that SAT-3 was supposed to be a nice
> cooperative effort funded by the nations themselves, rather than an
> outside investor. With cooperation, I'd have expected good peering.
Indeed, it is a co-operative affair owned by several of the incumbent
telcos along the route, and one suspects that they engage in all of the
sort of benevolent, community-focussed behaviour that you'd expect from
incumbents.
On a more serious note, and peering / interconnection arrangements aside,
the cable fault indicates a critical lack of resilience on the west coast
of africa.
Nick
