Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

[Hank Nussbacher]

At 04:13 AM 31-01-08 -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:

> What makes this incident more interesting, as I indicated if its not one 
> cable its another cable, was the double international cable cuts.
> Likewise, what made Tawain 2006 interesting wasn't an earthquake affected
> a cable, but there were multiple cable cuts in the region.
>
> Quick, everyone get out your international cable maps and speculate
> where in the world the next double (or triple, quad, etc) cable cut
> could happen.  Due to regional politics, I don't think there are many
> overland geographic diverse routes between countries to backup the
> undersea routes.  If I remember the Wired article, FLAG did try to
> build some overland geographic diversity through the region.

I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables 
intersect.  They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each 
other when they hit the landing stations.

-Hank