RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

["Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck () hiberniaatlantic com>]

Well, when you have all these cables running through narrow straits or converging to the same stretch of beach, it does 
not strike me as at all extraordinary.  

An important factor is cooperation. Is there cooperation between the fiber optic guys and fishing associations to 
minimize hits? 

I would wager there is close to zero. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu on behalf of Martin Hannigan
Sent: Fri 2/1/2008 10:33 PM
To: Ahmed Maged (amaged)
Cc: Steven M. Bellovin; nanog () merit edu
Subject: Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
 

On Feb 1, 2008 2:25 PM, Ahmed Maged (amaged) <amaged () cisco com> wrote:
> "Does look normal to me" is far from a global conspiracy theory.
>
>
> Thank you for the translation but I think you got it wrong.


I agree, there should be a sanity check as I understand that they are
within close proximity of each other. Two ships slipping anchors and
causing cable breaks in the same area is odd, but if there's a storm
in the area, that would not be that much of a surprise. There should
be some logic to the madness.

I think that the moral of the story is that "more" operators should
try to better understand what diversity means beyond the metro. The
challenge is getting the information. The Teleography series of
internet/sub maps are interesting.  They don't demonstrate diversity
though, since they show figurative routing. Those nice and straight
lines are a pipe dream.

-M<




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