Parted Cables
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 the FLAG, SAE-ME-WE4, FALCON cables.
For those who's first issue is whether or not Iran is the target of a network partition, that is, of some physical plane "information operation", possibly from reading something at Slashdot, or at the Internet Traffic Report, the answer is "No".
This Thursday I leave for New Delhi. I'll be there for a week. About 20% of Iran's network capacity has been lost, which is a lot, but nothing like the loss for other areas formerly served by the severed cables, India lost 50%, Egypt 80%, or the total partition (100% loss) that occurred to Pakistan last year.
Resourcs: Todd Underwood's Renesys Blog, the SLAC E2E project, the NANOG list traffic, and far off friends.
In keeping with the "Blogroll Amnesty Day" theme, this data will self-distruct and probably cause irreparable harm to computers and domestic animals if linked to by amnesiacs.
Enjoy!
Mediterranean Cable Break, Mediterranean Cable Break, part II, and Mediterranean Cable Break, part III.
Effects of Fibre Outage through Mediterranean at the Internet End-to-End Performance Monitoring Project at SLAC.
Comments
Thanks very much for the link and the post to the Renesys blog. We are following the developing events in Internet connectivity to South and SouthEast Asia and will continue to report on these.
I should note: I didn't personally write any of the blog posts that you cite. They were written by my colleague Earl Zmijewki, who currently heads up Renesys's Internet Data business unit, with support from my colleague Alin Popescu, who is a master analyst of routing data. I was only peripherally involved in the analysis.
I'd love to take credit for such good work, but it just wouldn't be right. :-)
Posted by: todd underwood | February 4, 2008 10:41 AM