http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/third-undersea-cable-reportedly-cut/story.aspx?guid={1AAB2A79-E983-4E0E-BC39-68A120DC16D9} "We had another cut today between Dubai and Muscat three hours back. The cable was about 80G capacity, it had telephone, Internet data, everything," one Flag official, who declined to be named, told Zawya Dow Jones. The cable, known as Falcon, delivers services to countries in the Mediterranean and Gulf region, he added. etc etc. On Jan 31, 2008 10:05 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 31, 2008 11:20 AM, Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com> wrote:
http://www.kisca.org.uk/Web_SWApproaches.pdf
And if you enlarge the map, you can see little dots on the lines representing the cables that denote repairs.
Lots and lots of repairs. Treacherous waters.
The distances are consistent with repeaters/op amps. And the chart legend notates the same.
Coincidentally, Telecom Egypt announced a new cable to be built by Alcatel-Lucent this morning. TE North, which looks like it's going from Egypt to France, is an 8 pair system (128 x 10Gb/s x 8).
Thanks for your input.
-M<
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