[73464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carlos Friacas)
Tue Aug 24 08:58:12 2004
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:57:29 +0100 (WEST)
From: Carlos Friacas <cfriacas@fccn.pt>
To: Bruce Campbell <bc-nanog@vicious.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408241254030.12886@x53.ripe.net>
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote:
>
> 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 )
>
...an alternative ISP would have made big bucks during those blockout
days using some satellite gear, no? ;-)
