That'll be overkill!
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:59:51 -0800> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > assam@assamnet.org> Subject: Re: [Assam] Crippled!-did you know?> > How about > a conspiration theory?> A American software engineer terribly upset over > outsorcing to India hired a Navy-Seal to go down the ocean and got the cables > cut.> > > ==============================================================================================> > > > ----- Original Message ----> From: mc mahant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: > "assam@assamnet.org" <assam@assamnet.org>> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2008 > 9:56:33 PM> Subject: [Assam] Crippled!-did you know?> > What's Up with All > the Slashed Internet Cables?> > > > As the pace of repair work picked up on > three Internet cables in the Middle East this week, word that more damage has > occurred to nearby undersea fiber-optic lines in the last 24 hours arrives. > The slew of slashed cables has caused a frenzy of speculation on their causes > in the blogosphere. As of today, Egyptian officials still had no explanation > as to the cause of the damage to the first two lines, slashed a week ago, but > they said there was no evidence that ship's anchors caused the breakage. > > The two new damaged lines being reported are to some of the same systems as > were cut recently, namely the FLAG Europe-Asia and SeaMeWe-4 networks. > Landline and satellite connections have ameliorated some of the outages in > the Middle East and South Asia regions, but it is estimated that some 85 > million Internet users have been adversely affected. According to one report, > nearly 90 per cent of Internet traffic is routed through undersea cables in > these parts of the world. > Officials for the cable operators predicted that > engineers working on repair ships at sea should be able to restore service in > approximately one week for the earlier incidents. FLAG Telecom, operator of > two of the damaged cables, told the Associated Press today that it is laying > an entirely new "fully resilient" cable that will be able to withstand > harsher treatment in underwater conditions. > "We are still treating this as > a crisis," a FLAG spokesman told the AP. "But the new cable will provide a > diversity in routes and be more resilient." > [See our earlier entry, > "Internet Problems Mount for Asia/Europe Connection" for more details on last > week's cable outages.] > > _________________________________________________________________> Post free > property ads on Yello Classifieds now! www.yello.in> > http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=221> > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> > assam@assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> > assam@assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org _________________________________________________________________ Post free property ads on Yello Classifieds now! www.yello.in http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=220 _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
