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Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut
From: Joel Esler <eslerj () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:32:13 -0500
I just posted an article about this on the Internet Storm Center, I have reports pouring in there as well.
Joel (http://isc.sans.org) On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian allegedly wrote:
If you can't read this email, please go to :http://www.orange.com/en_EN/press/press_releases/cp081219en.html Paris, December 19, 2008Three undersea cables cut: traffic greatly disturbed between Europe andAsia/Near East zone 3 cables cut this morning (Sea Me We3 partly + Sea Me We4 + FLAG) France Telecom Marine cable ship about to departFrance Telecom observed today that 3 major underwater cables were cut:?Sea Me We 4? at 7:28am, ?Sea Me We3? at 7:33am and FLAG at 8:06am. The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain unclear.Most of the B to B traffic between Europe and Asia is rerouted throughthe USA.Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected, but trafficfrom Europe to the Near East and Asia is interrupted to a greater or lesser extent (see country list below).Part of the internet traffic towards R?union is affected as well as 50%towards Jordan. A first appraisal at 7:44 am UTC gave an estimate of the followingimpact on the voice traffic (in percentage of out of service capacity):- Saudi Arabia: 55% out of service - Djibouti: 71% out of service - Egypt: 52% out of service - United Arab Emirates: 68% out of service - India: 82% out of service - Lebanon: 16% out of service - Malaysia: 42% out of service - Maldives: 100% out of service - Pakistan: 51% out of service - Qatar: 73% out of service - Syria: 36% out of service - Taiwan: 39% out of service - Yemen: 38% out of service - Zambia: 62% out of service France Telecom immediately alerted one of the two maintenance boats based in the Mediterranean area, the ?Raymond Croze?. This France Telecom Marine cable ship based at Seyne-sur-Mer has received its mobilization order early this afternoon and will cast off tonight at 3:00 am with 20 kilometers spare cable on board. It should be on location on Monday morning for a relief mission.Priority will be given to the recovery of the Sea Me We4 cable, then onthe Sea Me We3.By December 25th, Sea Me We4 could be operating. By December 31st, thesituation should be back to normal.
-- Joel Esler http://www.joelesler.net [m]
Current thread:
- Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 19)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Martin Hannigan (Dec 19)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Josh Potter (Dec 19)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Joel Esler (Dec 19)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Martin Hannigan (Dec 27)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut virendra rode (Dec 27)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Martin Hannigan (Dec 27)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Christopher Morrow (Dec 27)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Martin Hannigan (Dec 27)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut virendra rode (Dec 27)
- Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut Martin Hannigan (Dec 27)