Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Tue Feb 5 16:45:48 UTC 2008

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:11:13 -0600
Frank Coluccio <frank at dticonsulting.com> wrote:

> 
> Today's MIT Technology Review newsletter contains an article by John
> Borland, aided in large part by Tim Strong of Telegeography Research,
> covering the recent spate of submarine cable failures in the ME:
> 
> Analyzing the Internet Collapse
> By John Borland | Feb 5, 2008
> MIT Technology Review
> 
> Multiple fiber cuts to undersea cables show the fragility of the
> Internet at its choke points.
> 
> http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20152/?nlid=854
>

Good article; thanks.  My own summary is at
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-02/2008-02-04.html

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb