[136878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US Warships jamming Lebanon Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Feb 6 00:19:57 2011
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:19:33 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin3AkYgkuS+GG9bZuVRwkWJosu1qY1WTo9gyMTv@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/5/11 9:00 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> Lebanon's Telecom minister is claiming that US Navy radar is blocking the
> country's Internet..
>
> http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/93A95CA1A4E42178C225782E007371AF
Those repeaterless submarine optical systems are really impacted by
terrestrial rf transmission...
> "The problem, however, is due to a coordination error related to waves,"
>> Nahhas told OTV, adding that an investigation was underway to find out
>> whether this act is "intentional or not."
>
>
> also at
> http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/Lebanon/EFCEF203B3C315A5C225782E0020C75F
>
