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Transatlantic Cable Fault Disrupts Internet In UK

Posted by timothy on from the electrify-the-atlantic dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Web traffic between the U.S. and Europe has been hit after an undersea cable developed a major fault on Tuesday. Because the TAT-14 cable network is shaped like a ring, it should be able to cope with one such failure -- but unfortunately the consortium that owns it hadn't fixed an earlier problem, just off the U.S. coast. Just shows how systems with build-in redundancy can still go badly wrong...."

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  1. Damn by FrankoBoy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's indeed a big risk of electrocution for the ocean here. Imagine the mass extinctions such an accident could cause ! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH !

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    United States of America, good ol' backers of world peace.
  2. Re:Time to by Sexy+Bern · · Score: 0, Redundant

    tee-hee - you say "lay"

  3. Re:Ok let me get this straight.... by joggle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He's talking about the problem off of the US coast I presume. The article doesn't say when that problem started, but did say that it would be fixed within a week.