[73462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Campbell)
Tue Aug 24 06:59:42 2004
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:58:51 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <C6A30BFA-F591-11D8-9F90-000A95D1475E@tony.li>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote:
> Did they arrest the crew? They have grounds on negligence
> charges...
The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably in defiance of
'Undersea cable, Do not anchor here' signs, or the telco for having sited
a critical communications cable near/beneath a busy port ?
--==--
Bruce.
( Of course, I don't know the specifics, but if you have a choice, running
your very-special undersea cable beneath a port would seem to be a bad
idea )
