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RE: Connectivity status for Egypt
From: "Carlos Alcantar" <carlos () race com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:29:19 -0800
Looks like you can still make phone calls into Egypt. So it's not totally lights out... Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 Fax: +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com / www.race.com -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster () gmail com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM To: Joel Jaeggli Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt -----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_d isr 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/
Current thread:
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt, (continued)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Christopher (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Craig V (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Paul Graydon (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Craig V (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Marshall Eubanks (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Paul Ferguson (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Andree Toonk (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Craig Labovitz (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Roy (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Joel Jaeggli (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Paul Ferguson (Jan 27)
- RE: Connectivity status for Egypt Carlos Alcantar (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Mirjam Kuehne (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Marshall Eubanks (Jan 31)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Marshall Eubanks (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Craig Labovitz (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Christopher (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Jake Khuon (Jan 27)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Christopher Morrow (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Jared Mauch (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Jake Khuon (Jan 28)
- RE: Connectivity status for Egypt George Bonser (Jan 28)
- Re: Connectivity status for Egypt Charles N Wyble (Jan 28)