August 24, 2004 October is Koufax Pledge Drive month
Sri Lanka submarine cable cut
From NANOG
The vessel State of Nagaland severed the SEA-ME-WE-III cable yesterday, and Sri Lanka vanished from the connected universe, except for a few VSAT uplinks. Sri Lanka Telecom's connectivity to the outside world is through the Mount Lavinia landing point of the undersea SEA-ME-WE-III (SMW-III, South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe) fibre optic cable link managed by French and Singapore telecom. SMW-III consists of two fiber pairs (SDH/WDM) with a 40Gbps bandwidth, covering 41 landing points in 35 countries. SLT has filed a $5 million claim against the Shipping Corporation of India, owner of the SO/Nagaland, and a Sri Lankan court has ordered the vessel seized.
For data on SO/Nagaland, click on the following link.
Kathryn Cramer has a nice piece on the GTS Katie incident, and what I think of as the "total ownership cost" of privitization. I'd no idea that a third of Canada's force structure vanished for several weeks. Her piece can be found here. The GTS Katie incident came up on the follow-up discussion on NANOG in the context of asset seizure. Sometimes the cargo is worth more than the vessel.
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In June I considered posting about a new undersea cable landing in India, and the technical details of how several thousand jobs, whether to voice-circuit-terminating customer-service call-centers, or to data-circuit-terminating "IT" shops, are out-sourced. Eventually I decided not to post about the esoterica of outsourcing. I've changed my mind.
Posted by EBW at August 24, 2004 07:37 AM | TrackBack