Where fiber goes, backhoes soon follow: Camp Doha fiber link

Mon Mar 31 19:18:56 UTC 2003

I wonder if Kuwait has a Call Before You Dig program which spray paints
orange markers on the sand.

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/middle_east/web-signal-03-31-03.asp
  "Within the next two weeks, a fiber link will be established to connect
  Camp Doha with the Theater Command Communications Center in Bahrain,
  which is run by Central Command, and finally back into "the large fiber
  connections in the European infrastructure," Detamore said.

  "This will give us a bigger, more reliable pipe for a lot more bandwidth
  that we don't have to push through satellites," he said, declining to
  provide specific details on the size of the "pipe."