Why the Mediterranean Is the Net's Achilles' Heel

An anonymous reader writes "A spate of broken cables has brought disruption for many of the world's Web users in 2008 — and the Med has been at the center of the problems. For political reasons, the Mediterranean Sea is an Internet bottleneck through which the majority of traffic between Europe and Asia is squeezed. That traffic must run the gauntlet of earthquakes and heavy maritime traffic to reach its destination. Better and stronger cables are urgently needed to avoid a re-occurrence of the 2008 outages."

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optical links

[NotQuiteReal]

Instead of cables, which can be broken, they could use optical links.

Due to the distance and bandwidth needed, powerful lasers would be needed.

Since vast stretches of open water need to be covered, an aquatic platform would be needed, one that could be repositioned for optimal spacing or to avoid obstacles.

Unlike other gratuitous mentions, this really is a case were we could use some frikin sharks, with frikin lasers mounted on their heads.

Re:O Brave Achilles

[eln]

Every song should have a lute solo.

Re:Jeez.

[Anonymous Coward]

So yes, it's economics, but saying it's economics is glossing over the important details.

Circular logic works because circular logic works because circular logic works because circular logic works because circular logic works because...

I'm with you so far, but then what?