Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:11:13 -0600 Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com> wrote:

Today's MIT Technology Review newsletter contains an article by John Borland, aided in large part by Tim Strong of Telegeography Research, covering the recent spate of submarine cable failures in the ME:

Analyzing the Internet Collapse By John Borland | Feb 5, 2008 MIT Technology Review

Multiple fiber cuts to undersea cables show the fragility of the Internet at its choke points.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20152/?nlid=854

Good article; thanks. My own summary is at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-02/2008-02-04.html --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb