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2008-01-30 Arabia

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Posted by gorb 2008-01-30 11:56|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Oh-oh. Goat P0rn Anonymous better get that hotline number out there...

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-30 16:14|| 2008-01-30 16:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Something is not 'kosher' here. The internet by design was suppose to survive a nuke exchange. The network design was to skip around physical links or routers which went to the hereafter. Now one cable break shuts out the Mideast?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-01-30 16:23|| 2008-01-30 16:23|| Front Page Top

#3 The network is indeed designed to work around breaks. But the robustness and bandwidth of the surviving network is a function of the physical infrastructure which carries the packets of data.

'Internet' means 'between networks'. In most cases, the various networks that are linked together into the public internet have lots of cross connections. But there are places where traffic is routed through one or two big pipes, as across oceans. And how interconnected c.f. Egypt would be with other infrastructure is a function of cost and openness, both of them mitigating against the kind of infrastructure redundancy that north America, Europe and Asia enjoy.

Posted by lotp 2008-01-30 16:36|| 2008-01-30 16:36|| Front Page Top

#4 In addition, Egypt is probably the gateway for Europe-Mideast traffic via the Red Sea. Europe-Israel cables are not likely to go any further. Same for Leb cables not going to Syria and beyond.

Posted by ed 2008-01-30 16:41|| 2008-01-30 16:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Nothing to see here. Go about your business. Never mind that new "repair box" on the sea floor

Posted by Halliburton Data Mining Division">Halliburton Data Mining Division 2008-01-30 17:28|| 2008-01-30 17:28|| Front Page Top

#6 World cable map here

Posted by Pappy 2008-01-30 22:25|| 2008-01-30 22:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmmmmm....there are some good dredging possibilities in the Med, Red, and Persian Gulf from that map, Pappy. If ya get my drift....

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-01-30 23:08|| 2008-01-30 23:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Where are all NorK's lines?

Posted by gorb 2008-01-30 23:19|| 2008-01-30 23:19|| Front Page Top

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