[150643] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Andrews)
Wed Feb 29 08:05:42 2012
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:04:43 -0600
From: Mike Andrews <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:33:04PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote:
>
> On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mike Andrews wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote:
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> >> On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> >>> Is anyone seeing this ?
> >>>
> >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544
> >>>
> >>> "East Africa's high-speed internet access has been severely disrupted
> >>> after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-optic cables off Kenya's
> >>> coast."
> >
> > The ship was reported to have dropped anchor while in a restricted or
> > prohibited area. These areas are _EXTREMELY_ well marked on charts. I can't
> > see it being anything other than human or mechanical error: not checking if
> > the ship is in a no-anchorage area, or the anchor chain wildcat brake _and_
> > the anchor chain blocking device fail simultaneously, or watch officer
> > totally mistakes the ship's location and orders the anchor to be let go.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Andrews, W5EGO
> > mikea@mikea.ath.cx
> > Tired old sysadmin
> >
>
> One more option: engine or steering failure making dropping the hook an
> urgent necessity. What are the chances you'd hit a fiber-optic cable. ; -)
Good call. I'd not seen that one, but should have, and engineering
failures seem to be happening (or to be reported) rather more than they
used to.
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
