Marshall: I don't see any cables for Lebanon. I also don't see any cable for Syria. I see "Falcon" coming down an estuary on an edge border for Jordan. In proximity, Israel has some redundancy, although I don't have the granularity to strip out the specific cables. It looks like a "branch" to me, a splice point in a cable that happens under the water, which allows for multi-directional paths from a single cable. I would think that route-views would have any of what you may need to track down what's going on advertisement wise, and for free. Best, Marty On Feb 3, 2008 7:33 PM, Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com> wrote:
Dear Sean;
Do you know how Syria, Jordan and Lebanon get their connectivity ? They have dropped off the map today for us. (Or maybe yesterday - I wasn't able to pay any attention to this yesterday.)
Our Egyptian audience remains very low, while Iran still seems to be unaffected.
Regards Marshall
On Feb 3, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
A fourth submarine cable in the middle east was damaged Sunday between Haloul, Qatar and Das, United Arab Emirates.
This is in addition to the damage affecting FLAG, SAE-ME-WE4, FALCON cables.
Afer reviewing surveillance video of the area, Egypt's ministry of maritime transportation is reporting no ships were near the FLAG or SAE-ME-WE4 cables 12-hours before or after the cable damage near Alexanderia, Egypt. The reason for outage of the cables has not been identified yet.