What I see from our Cogent transit is that Egypt has completely fallen off the map, with a normally consistent traffic gone to zero, but traffic to Iran, Iraq, the GCC, India and Pakistan and even Yemen doesn't seem to be affected, at least not noticeably. Regards Marshall On Jan 31, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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- -- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
If its not one cable, its another cable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/30/asia.internet.outage
Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.
For what its worth, Todd Underwood has a very good overview of the countries affected by this outage over on the Renesys Blog here:
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/01/mediterranean_cable_break.shtml
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