Hi all:

In the recent days many of us may have experienced
slow/not-available internet access.

Reading the papers/news, one many have read about
damaged under-sea cable near Egypt.

Technically, it appears that most of the internet that
we know is actually built on under-sea cables.

A very detailed map of the infrastructure is here,
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg

The two cables were cut accidently by a ship's anchor
 . Sea-Me-We 4
 . FLAG Europe Asia

For the interested the entire story is available at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/01/internationalpersonalfinancebusiness.internet/print

Serial technology rules !


thanks
Saifi.

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