[138748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rush to Fix Quake-Damaged Undersea Cables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Mar 14 12:55:29 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <A493C7A9BBA74B209588278EF83A6E5B@bb.local>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:54:37 -0400
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On Mar 14, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Masato YAMANISHI wrote:
>> About half of the existing cables running across the Pacific=20
>> are damaged ...
>>=20
>> It that realistic ? That seems like much more damage than=20
>> anything I have heard or seen.
>=20
> Yes, it's definetely true.
I'd like to see a list of damaged cables. I thought a lot of capacity =
was installed which did not go through Japan, so half the capacity =
across the Pacific would be most of the capacity into Japan. Or such is =
my understanding, which may be incorrect. Does someone have data?
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
