[135732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Jan 28 08:34:01 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <859604546CD1FF488BDB6EA94C896AFB012807E8@racexchange.race.local>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:33:29 -0500
To: "Carlos Alcantar" <carlos@race.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Carlos Alcantar wrote:
> Looks like you can still make phone calls into Egypt. So it's not =
totally lights out...
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Mobile is apparently being shut down now :
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/press.html
Statement - Vodafone Egypt
All mobile operators in Egypt have been instructed to suspend services =
in selected areas. Under Egyptian legislation the authorities have the =
right to issue such an order and we are obliged to comply with it. The =
Egyptian authorities will be clarifying the situation in due course .=20
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I think that clarifications are unnecessary in this case.=20
Regards
Marshall
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> Carlos Alcantar
> Race Communications / Race Team Member=20
> 101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080
> Phone: +1 415 376 3314 Fax: +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com / =
www.race.com
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> -----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:
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>> 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.
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>> my links through the region are all fine, but they don't jump off the=20=
>> cable in egypt just pass through.
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>>> =
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_d
>>> isr
>>> uption
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> To my knowledge, no one has reported any cable problems in Norther =
Africa
> - -- and news of those problems generally travels very fast. :-)
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> Also, if there *was* a cable problem on one of the paths through the =
vicinity, it affect more than just Egypt:
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> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg
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> I don't think it takes a leap of imagination to understand what has =
happened here.
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> - - ferg
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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