Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Mon Feb 4 06:04:09 UTC 2008

Hi,
anyone with a source of unadulterated information from an operational 
point of view about this cuts. A search on the Net is springing up a lot 
of speculative whodunits.
Reason is, how will the affected regions get round this issue before the 
repairs are done. First thought would be to set up satellite links, not 
as good but better than nothing.

Raymond

Sean Donelan wrote:
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> 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.
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> https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean 
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> If the intent was to cut off Iran, they're picking the wrong cables.
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> TAE goes across the northern part of Iran
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> http://taeint.net/en/network/middle/
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> FLAG via UAE, SE-ME-WE-3 (not 4), ITOUR and KAFOS
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> Sometimes concicidences are concidences.
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