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Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 00:38:40 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Todd Underwood wrote:
there has has been a lot of speculation that this is all some US prelude to war with iran. while i don't claim to know much about whether that makes any sense, i do know that if they're trying to disconnect iran from the internet, they're doing a lousy job:
An extremely poor job if that was the intent. According to SLAC, throughput to Iran actually improved.
https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Effects+of+Fibre+Outage+through+Mediterranean If the intent was to cut off Iran, they're picking the wrong cables. TAE goes across the northern part of Iran http://taeint.net/en/network/middle/ FLAG via UAE, SE-ME-WE-3 (not 4), ITOUR and KAFOS Sometimes concicidences are concidences.
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- Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Marshall Eubanks (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Martin Hannigan (Feb 03)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Marcus H. Sachs (Feb 03)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Marcus H. Sachs (Feb 03)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 04)
- RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Marshall Eubanks (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Todd Underwood (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Sean Donelan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Raymond Macharia (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Martin Hannigan (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Mark Newton (Feb 03)
- Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Patrick Clochesy (Feb 04)
- [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Alex Pilosov (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Kee Hinckley (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Brandon Galbraith (Feb 04)
- Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Hank Nussbacher (Feb 04)
- RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Rod Beck (Feb 04)
- RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE) Ben Butler (Feb 04)