Well, take a look at this map and tell me how many TransAtlantic landing stations are within several kilometers of each other. Look at how the TransAtlantic cables converge to landing points (except for Hibernia). http://www.kisca.org.uk/Web_SWApproaches.pdf These maps are used by UK and Irish fishing boats to avoid the undersea cables. Regards, Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic 1, Passage du Chantier, 75012 Paris http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com Wireless: 1-212-444-8829. Landline: 33-1-4346-3209. French Wireless: 33-6-14-33-48-97. AOL Messenger: GlobalBandwidth rod.beck@hiberniaatlantic.com rodbeck@erols.com ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' Albert Einstein. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Alexander Harrowell Sent: Thu 1/31/2008 10:48 AM To: Hank Nussbacher Cc: Sean Donelan; nanog@merit.edu Subject: 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.