Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

[Hascall Sharp <chsharp () cisco com>]

For Lebanon:

Here is the MPT's web site on submarine cables:

http://www.mpt.gov.lb/berytar.htm

It has links to aletar and cadmos as well.


Chip Sharp


Marshall Eubanks 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.