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Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
From: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:18:06 -0600
On 2/4/08, Kee Hinckley <nazgul () somewhere com> wrote:
If you know that someone wants to cut your cables. What defense do you have? Is there any practical way to monitor and protect an oceanic cable? Are there ways to build them that would make them less discoverable? Some way to provide redundancy? A non-physical solution involving underwater repeaters? Or is this like pipelines in Iraq?
While reading the hacker tourist article someone posted from Wired many years ago, it mentioned that as the FO cable comes closer to shore, more extreme measures are taken to protect it, including fluidizing the sand underneath the cable to cause the cable to sink under, and then stopping the fluidizing process so the sand compacts above it. I'm unsure how practical this would be along a substantial link of cable though. (Although, burying the cable under compact sand seems like it would protect it from a whole host of dangers). -brandon
Current thread:
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE), (continued)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 04)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Todd Underwood (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Raymond Macharia (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Martin Hannigan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Mark Newton (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Patrick Clochesy (Feb 04)
- [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Alex Pilosov (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Kee Hinckley (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Brandon Galbraith (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Hank Nussbacher (Feb 04)
- RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Rod Beck (Feb 04)
- RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Ben Butler (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Steve Gibbard (Feb 04)
- RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Barry Shein (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 04)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Alexander Harrowell (Feb 04)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Lou Katz (Feb 04)