Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

From: Marshall Eubanks (no email)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 21:20:09 EST

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    What I see from our Cogent transit is that Egypt has completely
    fallen off the map, with a normally consistent traffic gone to zero,
    but traffic to Iran, Iraq, the GCC, India and Pakistan and even Yemen
    doesn't seem to be affected, at least not noticeably.

    Regards
    Marshall

    On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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    >> If its not one cable, its another cable.
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    >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/30/asia.internet.outage
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    >> Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without
    >> internet
    >> access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.
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    > For what its worth, Todd Underwood has a very good overview of the
    > countries affected by this outage over on the Renesys Blog here:
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    > http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/01/mediterranean_cable_break.shtml
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    > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
    > Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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    > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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