[135721] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos Alcantar)
Fri Jan 28 03:29:25 2011
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:29:19 -0800
From: "Carlos Alcantar" <carlos@race.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Looks like you can still make phone calls into Egypt. So it's not =
totally lights out...
Carlos Alcantar
Race Communications / Race Team Member=20
101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
Phone: +1 415 376 3314 =A0Fax: =A0+1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com =
/ www.race.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM
To: Joel Jaeggli
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
> On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote:
>> Moral of the story: Separate facts from assumptions and guesses. I=20
>> did some Google searches and that region has had large scale=20
>> disruptions in the past. Several cables follow the same path to the=20
>> Suez canal and were hit.
>
> my links through the region are all fine, but they don't jump off the=20
> cable in egypt just pass through.
>
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_d
>> isr
>> uption
>>
To my knowledge, no one has reported any cable problems in Norther =
Africa
- -- and news of those problems generally travels very fast. :-)
Also, if there *was* a cable problem on one of the paths through the =
vicinity, it affect more than just Egypt:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg
I don't think it takes a leap of imagination to understand what has =
happened here.
- - ferg
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