[138745] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged Undersea Cables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masato YAMANISHI)
Mon Mar 14 12:15:50 2011
From: "Masato YAMANISHI" <myamanis@japan-telecom.com>
To: "'Marshall Eubanks'" <tme@americafree.tv>, "'NANOG list'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:15:41 -0700
In-Reply-To: <E62C8F0C-3890-423F-8938-DA3528ED8A0B@americafree.tv>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi Marshall and all,
> About half of the existing cables running across the Pacific
> are damaged ...
>
> It that realistic ? That seems like much more damage than
> anything I have heard or seen.
Yes, it's definetely true.
Rgs,
Masato
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:tme@americafree.tv]
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:54 AM
> To: NANOG list
> Subject: Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged Undersea Cables
>
> In this WSJ article
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527487048936045761999
> 52421569210.html
>
> or
>
> http://on.wsj.com/gaPk8V
>
> This caught my eye :
>
> About half of the existing cables running across the Pacific
> are damaged ...
>
> It that realistic ? That seems like much more damage than
> anything I have heard or seen.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
>
>
