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The Effects of the Fibre Outage Throughout the Mediterranean

Posted by Zonk on from the need-some-unclogging-of-the-tubes dept.

Umar Kalim writes "Analysts have been studying the effects of the fibre outage throughout the Mediterranean in terms of network performance, by examining the changes in packet losses, latencies and throughput. We initially discussed the outage yesterday. 'It is interesting that some countries such as Pakistan were mainly unaffected, despite the impact on neighboring countries such as India. This contrasts dramatically to the situation in June - July 2005, when due to a fibre cut of SEAMEWE3 off Karachi, Pakistan lost all terrestrial Internet connectivity which resulted, in many cases, in a complete 12 day outage of services. This is a tribute to the increased redundancy of international fibre connectivity installed for Pakistan in the last few years.'"

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  1. And the conclusions are by fasuin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So 5 pages to conclude that under bandwidth constraints packet loss and RTT increase? WoW!!!

  2. Re:Who will benefit? by flyneye · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How about Muslim Fundamentalists earning another virgin for the service of protecting Allahs people from the great Satans misinformation feed?
    Makes ya think,donut?
    Islam better than pork?
    Does the "Holy Diver""Live In A Muslim Submarine"?

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