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Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:46:06 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:
On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote:Moral of the story: Separate facts from assumptions and guesses. I did some Google searches and that region has had large scale disruptions in the past. Several cables follow the same path to the Suez canal and were hit.my links through the region are all fine, but they don't jump off the cable in egypt just pass through.https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disr uption
To my knowledge, no one has reported any cable problems in Norther Africa - -- and news of those problems generally travels very fast. :-) Also, if there *was* a cable problem on one of the paths through the vicinity, it affect more than just Egypt: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg I don't think it takes a leap of imagination to understand what has happened here. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFNQnQ0q1pz9mNUZTMRAoFQAKCE8P0wINouFWUvW9GFn7FR6XVmOwCdGV/i VzTaxnJQOPVqyY2bP8ZraDA= =daOC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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