Undersea cable cut news.....

Big frontpage WSJ article, today's WSJ. "Internet Logjams Spur Cable Boom"
was quite detailed about all of the fibos cables, and had a big world wide
map, recent history of cable-laying, economics, and continues with 2/3
page on page A14. Says in Dec 2006 an undersea earthquake cut 7 of 8
cables near Taiwan and disrupting communications to rest of Asia for
months. The map shows a very exstensive cable network, by the way. Also
says that most international data traffic is on cables, not satellites,
now. Says, in shallow water the cables are put in a trench 6-8 feet under
surface. One sentence says two cables off Egypt coast and two cables in
Persian Gulf suffered "outages" with no speculation as to why. Just said
Egypts data rate cut by 70%, India lost half of its capacity. IIRC no
other country was listed as being affected.


THE ECONOMIST, Feb 9th, page 67-68, had article "Of cables and
conspiracies" with more info, and more speculation (including sabotage).
Speculated on ship anchors being the culprit, but Egyptians had some kind
of video footage that no ships were in the area 12 hours before to 12
hours afterwards. Said those cables carried 90% of data from Euro to
Gulf/South Asia.

The article made refernces to the following URLs (FYI, FWIW):

digg.com
defensetech.org
ArabianBusiness.com
slashdot.org
pkpolitics.com
nwo101.com (New World Order 101.com)

At the end of the article was a statement that more than 50 cables were
cut or damaged in the Atlantic last year as if this kind of thing happens
more often than we might realize.

FWIW, FYI