Undersea Cables Cut; 14 Countries Lose Web

[T_Flight]

Ahh, OK. So you're just assuming. Got it.

[CyberDruid]

Join date 2008: [sarcasm=]superior attitude[/sarcam]. You have won the internets.

[BakerT]

Good point.

[kemo]

unfortunately , Egypt is one of the countries severely affected by the cut but so 3 days without XS whoever ,, what makes me mad is that in February , every thing was down for 48hours and say that it is because that this one is a the main cable and this time we are down for 24hours followed by 48hours off buggy DSL they say the same thing so where the hell is the older one that was down in February and now fixed

[T_Flight]

Join date 2008: [sarcasm=]superior attitude[/sarcam]. You have won the internets.

That's a great point. Proof that a person is not their in join date.

[clo007]

here is why you don't want satillite(my speed test)

Damn, that suxs.

[T_Flight]

Before I went wireless, I actually had worse speeds than that. How would people like to pay 70 bucks a month for Satelite, and have 350Kb downloads, and less than 40 up? Aw, and with 1800-2000ms latency (lag) times. Yes, that is not a joke. I actually put up with that for years. I got rid of it over a year ago and went wireless. There is no Cable or DSL or FIOS here. The Satelite ISP are overselling, they are overloading the Satelites. They are basically selling service to more people than they have the bandwidth for. The latency just comes with the nature of Satelite. It gets blocked by T-Stroms, and bad weather, it also gets blocked during Solstices becasue of the noise of the Sun and the angle to the Satelite. That happens about 2-3 weeks twice a year with Intermittent noise outages depending on your location and Sun angle.

There are some issues with it.

[Salsoolo]

am from middle east and the internet already suck without the cuts
on previous cable cuts i've read alot of "no pr0n for terrorists" comments
its good to see more friendly ppl lolz

[T_M]

you are at it once again T_Flight
Oh well, i tried to warn you before....

[Mk]

New cable construction should help to prevent such outages in the future, according to TeleGeography Research Director Alan Mauldin: ‘Many new cable systems are slated to enter service between Europe and Egypt in the next few years, including Telecom Egypt’s TE North cable, Orascom's MENA system, FLAG's HAWK cable, the IMEWE consortium cable, and the EIG consortium cable.’ Though constructing multiple cables does not guarantee against outages, the introduction of these new systems will provide additional routing options and improve resiliency.

A team of FT’s marine engineers arrived at the site of the damage to the SEA-ME-WE3 and SEA-ME-WE4 cables at 13:30 GMT yesterday (Sunday). The capacity situation had ‘improved’ in India, Singapore and Reunion by 15:00 GMT on the same day, according to an FT spokesman quoted by Reuters, whilst the Egyptian government reported that more than 80% of its internet capacity had been restored, although there remained some ‘tangible impact on call centres’. Meanwhile, Reliance said in a statement to Reuters this morning (Monday) that a repair ship was on its way to the site of the FLAG cable breakage, and that it expects to complete repairs this week. The actual cause of the cut remains unclear, although it is thought unlikely to have been a deliberate attack, with a ship’s anchor being put forward as a likely culprit.

http://www.telegeography.com/cu/arti...599&email=html

The Middle East spent its first workday coping with slow and spotty Internet access after key communication cables were cut. A French repair crew began fixing damaged undersea lines.

Telecommunication providers from Cairo to Dubai continued to scramble on Sunday to reroute voice and data traffic through potentially costly detours in Asia and North America after the lines running under the Mediterranean Sea were damaged Friday. The cause of the cuts wasn't yet known.

It is the second time this year that trans-Mediterranean cables to Europe have been cut, knocking out Web and telephone access for many in the Middle East. The earlier cut, in late January, was apparently caused by a ship's anchor.

On Sunday afternoon, a ship operated by France Telecom SA's marine division arrived at what it believes is the accident site south of Sicily.

The crew released a robotic submarine to search for two of the three damaged cables, which are owned by a consortium that includes the Paris-based telecommunications giant. Once found, the cable ends will be pulled to the surface and repaired on deck -- a process that could take several days. The company hopes to have the first line fixed by Thursday.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1229...googlenews_wsj

[Richard Dower]

Wonder if it's some evil conspiracy?

[hema]

waitting thursday
thy say the prob. will finish

[DoubleZero]

http://www.telegeography.com/cu/arti...599&email=html

Good site.

[Particle]

Unless you know a way to make the speed of light higher, I don't think satellites are going to be the ultimate anything. Or perhaps if you find a way to use quantum entanglement in a way that communicates information. Good luck on both of those.

[Shintai]

Unless you know a way to make the speed of light higher, I don't think satellites are going to be the ultimate anything. Or perhaps if you find a way to use quantum entanglement in a way that communicates information. Good luck on both of those.

Japan actually got a solution for it. Low orbit satellites. But you need more and "roaming". 1Gbit via satellite.

[Richard Dower]

No cables to Ireland?....what the hell???...no wonder our broadband is crap!

[[XC] riptide]

No cables to Ireland?....what the hell???...no wonder our broadband is crap!

There is!! I know UPC have cables going out from some terminal in East Point in Dublin. I'm sure theres many more. I mean if you ping UK you can still get <150ms.

Not including the low orbit tech the Japanese might be using, most telco is through Geostationary satellites. They are about ~ 36,000 km (22,000 mi) out. Thats a round trip of ~72,000 to the equator alone. It'll be ~240 ms just to a point right below the satellites used on the equator. Factor in switching gear and other routing delays and that'll go nicely towards 1000ms very quickly after you consider that you are not on the equator, but most lilely in US/Europe/Asia with angles been made to get to the satellite.

EDIT: @Richard... heres a proper list for our area.

http://www.iscpc.org/cabledb/North_Sea_Cable_db.htm

As for the broadband, you know you can get that fancy 12Mbit stuff here now?

[moiraesfate]

Hmm... that explains some things. My husband was remarking on the weird download speeds from the net yesterday. He must have been downloading some things from the affected area.

[saaya]

LOL

[Serpentarius]

maybe it's the cable in the channel which splits Asia and Europe .. near Turkey i recall
it's one of the most busiest channel around that region ... there's some communication cables layed down there .. even gas pipelines

there's a huge project building an underwater train tunnel to bridge Asia and Europe continents there as well
i still recall that turkey side project manager is so pissed when he excavated an archeological site ... LOL .. how unlucky
archelogy site are a drag .. who's knows there's an ancient port lies underneath the earth?

[Jochenp]

you are at it once again T_Flight
Oh well, i tried to warn you before....

You don't want to go there! Do you even know who he is?

[Duh]

Good site.

I was not able to find a higher res image of the same you posted.. any clues??

[LexDiamonds]

You don't want to go there! Do you even know who he is?

Hi rollin' e-thug.. fo real. He'll come for you thru the internets..

[hema]

very slow net today in midd. east
what the hill is this?
they say that the prob. will solve in thursday untill now nothing happened

[Jochenp]

Hi rollin' e-thug.. fo real. He'll come for you thru the internets..

He knows where you live dawg, his boys will come driving by with them mac10's and whoop your buttocks.