Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

Fri Feb 1 18:16:24 UTC 2008

Of course, we all know the Mossad (Israeli secret services) and CIA did it as part of the global conspiracy against the Middle East and Third World ...

In recent years I have restrained myself, but from time to time the 'old Rod Beck' manages to evade the supervision of the Super Ego (presumably you know your Freudian psychology). 

But seriously, double failures occur all the time. TAT-14 went dark for over 24 hours on December 28, 2003 when one cable was damaged and the switch of traffic to the other cable caused the second cable to experience a repeater failure. 

Probability dictates that the improbable will happen given enough time. The improbable is unlikely, not impossible. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmed Maged (amaged) [mailto:amaged at cisco.com]
Sent: Fri 2/1/2008 6:05 PM
To: Steven M. Bellovin; Martin Hannigan
Cc: Rod Beck; Hank Nussbacher; Sean Donelan; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

Doesn't look normal to me that both cables were cut 'accidently'

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Steven M. Bellovin
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 6:49 PM
To: Martin Hannigan
Cc: Rod Beck; Hank Nussbacher; Sean Donelan; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

Today's NY Times reports that the problem was caused by two
near-simultaneous cable failures:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/business/worldbusiness/31cable.html

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