Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote:

I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables intersect. They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each other when they hit the landing stations.

Exactly; which have historically been in the same strategic locations. Suez, Singapore, Cape Town; it's the strategic map of the British Empire. "Five strategic keys lock up the world", as Lord Fisher said. (Dover, Gibraltar, Singapore, Cape Town, and Suez). The similarity is truly uncanny.