-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 28, 2006, at 5:35 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
I've wondered how many boats/subs exist for these repairs and if attempting to do them all in parallel is going to be a big problem. With 6 systems having outages, it will be interesting to see when various paths/systems come back online and if there is a gating factor in underseas repair gear being available in the region.
Much of the affected cables are managed under the SEAIOCMA (South East Asia Indian Ocean Cable Maintenance Agreement). I am not sure how many ships they have on stand-by in the region, but probably not enough to send out one ship to each of the faults, given that multiple faults have been reported on most cable systems. I presume, the more important cable systems - those with higher stakes for the SEAIOCMA signatories will get repaired first followed by others. thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFk3IZSo7fU26F3X0RApmJAKDZpWgD67Kuqq8lSs7wEQquCVbfbQCguf61 bnrQWB66C0pOjl+5O7TYmVU= =yVXA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----