Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Mon Feb 4 05:58:14 UTC 2008

Marshall:

I don't see any cables for Lebanon. I also don't see any cable for
Syria. I see "Falcon" coming down an estuary on an edge border for
Jordan. In proximity, Israel has some redundancy, although I don't
have the granularity to strip out the specific cables. It looks like a
"branch" to me, a splice point in a cable that happens under the
water, which allows for multi-directional paths from a single cable.

I would think that route-views would have any of what you may need to
track down what's going on advertisement wise, and for free.

Best,

Marty

On Feb 3, 2008 7:33 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme at multicasttech.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Sean;
>
> Do you know how Syria, Jordan and Lebanon get their connectivity ?
> They have dropped off the map today for us. (Or maybe yesterday - I
> wasn't able to pay any attention to this yesterday.)
>
> Our Egyptian audience remains very low, while Iran still seems to be
> unaffected.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > A fourth submarine cable in the middle east was damaged Sunday
> > between Haloul, Qatar and Das, United Arab Emirates.
> >
> > This is in addition to the damage affecting FLAG, SAE-ME-WE4, FALCON
> > cables.
> >
> > Afer reviewing surveillance video of the area, Egypt's ministry of
> > maritime transportation is reporting no ships were near the FLAG or
> > SAE-ME-WE4 cables 12-hours before or after the cable damage near
> > Alexanderia, Egypt.  The reason for outage of the cables has
> > not been identified yet.
> >
> >
>
>