From: Steven M. Bellovin (no email)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 13:53:09 EST
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:56:39 -0500 (EST)
Sean Donelan <> wrote:
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> Caution: upon further research it appears there may be some language
> misscommunication in some of the reports; and some of the outages may
> be multiple reports of the same incidents.
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> http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February115.xml§ion=theuae
> Confirming international media reports, an Etisalat official
> yesterday told Khaleej Times that the cable network was not
> completely severed, though the damage slowed down the already
> affected system. He did not give any further details regarding the
> cause of damage. [...]
> This is the third incident of its kind in the area since January 30
> since the cables were first damaged in the Mediterranean and then
> off the coast of Dubai, causing widespread disruption to Internet and
> international telephone services in Egypt, Gulf Arab states and
> south Asia.
>
> FLAG restoration update information:
> http://www.flagtelecom.com/media/PDF_files/Submarine%20Cable%20Cut%20Update%20Bulletin%20Release%20030208.pdf
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http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=21567&email=html
is probably as authoritative a source as one can find for what
happened. It says there were two cuts in the Mediterranean (SEA-ME-WE 4
near Marseille) and Flag Telecom's Europe-Asia cable near Alexandria.
The Flag Telecom Falcon cable was cut between UAE and Oman, and the
Qatar-UAE cable failed due to a power issue.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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