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Saturday, February 2, 2008

Caution! Cut Cables Cause Communication Catastrophe!

"How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people" "The Guardian," February 1, 2008

The author seems to be a little confused about directions ("Although the direct effect of the Mediterranean accident is being felt as far west as Bangladesh." West?? I thought Bangladesh was east of the Mediterranean.), but he does have a point. The global communications system we have is fragile. At least, in some places.

I wrote about this yesterday: "Internet Cables Cut, Outages From Egypt to Bangladesh."

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