Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Mon Feb 4 05:38:40 UTC 2008


On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Todd Underwood wrote:
> there has has been a lot of speculation that this is all some US
> prelude to war with iran.  while i don't claim to know much about
> whether that makes any sense, i do know that if they're trying to
> disconnect iran from the internet, they're doing a lousy job:

An extremely poor job if that was the intent. According to SLAC, 
throughput to Iran actually improved.

https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean

If the intent was to cut off Iran, they're picking the wrong cables.

TAE goes across the northern part of Iran

http://taeint.net/en/network/middle/

FLAG via UAE, SE-ME-WE-3 (not 4), ITOUR and KAFOS

Sometimes concicidences are concidences.



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