The Effects of the Fibre Outage Throughout the Mediterranean

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.'"

Comments

Re:Who will benefit?

[CaptainPatent]

The question I have not seen posed yet. Who will benefit? Who will benefit of this outage? It's apparent from the article that statisticians and colored-chart advocates have benefited from this outage... if that helps.

SEAMEWE?

[theskipper]

What a coincidence, last night I met a girl in an AOL chatroom with the exact same name.

The Effects of the Fibre Outage

[Peet42]

...has led to blockages in http://www.google.com/tisp/ that seem immune to data-flushing.

Re:Ameircans much?

[Eli Gottlieb]

We all know, but some jackass decided that "Mediterranean" should serve as a convenient, politically correct euphemism for "Middle Eastern".

They really just wanted to sell hummus without people realizing that's what Arabs eat.

Re:Who will benefit?

[iminplaya]

Who could it be, I just don't know. Could it be... Satan??