Posted on 12/19/2008 3:37:18 PM PST by khnyny
Tech Central: er, something's happening
Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage.
Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage, when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) throughout the region, including those in United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, also reported problems. International telephone calls, which have also been affected, are being rerouted to work around the problem.
Industry experts told The Times that two sub-sea cables went down just off Alexandra, causing the mass disruption. It happens to a single cable typically once a year, and companies have developed the fail-safe of redirecting traffic to a second cable should this occur.
“It is incredibly rare to experience a dual-break where both cables are down simultaneously,” said a spokesperson for Interoute, the internet networks company.
The Egyptian ministry said it will take “several days” for cables to be repaired and is trying to reroute Egypt’s internet connections.
Indian ISPs said their problems were due to the cable damage off Egypt. Speaking to reporters, Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers’ Association of India, said: "Information technology companies, software companies and call centres that provide online services to the UK or the US east coast are the worst affected."
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terne servic is unimp ded.
OL!
The last time this happened, they were saying it was either US or israeli super secret G-men sabotaging iran’s efforts to set up it’s own oil based borse denominated in euros.
This time what is it? Outages from italy to india? I’d say they are targeting the same geographical area. I’d say it has something to do with either iran or pakistan...and that the israelis and the indians are in on it.
Double Hmmmmmmmmm.
Wonder what’s up? HOW do undersea cables just break???
Hey fanfan, all I got was that d****d red x. Reformat please...LOL!
once is an accident, twice a coincidence. but the third time is war...
It’s there for me.
Try refreshing the page.
**sigh** that’s okay, must be our squirrel cage ISP software system or this old Atari I’ve got, reckon?? Thanks!
I don’t think that the Pakinastinis are that stupid. That would start a great big bloody war again.
LOL. Roy Scheider aka special ops aqualung superman.
That would likely mess up the price of oil and who knows where it will all stop. No wonder the politicians are spending money like drunken sailors on bail-outs as they know in a real war money has no real value.
I guess I will surrender my 401 K for the new war bonds.
lock & load...
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