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

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:11:13 -0600
Frank Coluccio <frank () dticonsulting com> wrote:

> Today's MIT Technology Review newsletter contains an article by John
> Borland, aided in large part by Tim Strong of Telegeography Research,
> covering the recent spate of submarine cable failures in the ME:
>
> Analyzing the Internet Collapse
> By John Borland | Feb 5, 2008
> MIT Technology Review
>
> Multiple fiber cuts to undersea cables show the fragility of the
> Internet at its choke points.
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20152/?nlid=854

Good article; thanks.  My own summary is at
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-02/2008-02-04.html


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb