Hi, We did some analysis of the situation in Egypt using the RIPEstat toolbox (please note, this is a prototype and we're not sure how it will handle a big load): http://labs.ripe.net/Members/akvadrako/live_eqyptian_internet_incident_analy... Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC Carlos Alcantar wrote:
Looks like you can still make phone calls into Egypt. So it's not totally lights out...
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-----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgster@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM To: Joel Jaeggli Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote:
Moral of the story: Separate facts from assumptions and guesses. I did some Google searches and that region has had large scale disruptions in the past. Several cables follow the same path to the Suez canal and were hit. my links through the region are all fine, but they don't jump off the cable in egypt just pass through.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_d isr uption
To my knowledge, no one has reported any cable problems in Norther Africa - -- and news of those problems generally travels very fast. :-)
Also, if there *was* a cable problem on one of the paths through the vicinity, it affect more than just Egypt:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg
I don't think it takes a leap of imagination to understand what has happened here.
- - ferg
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