Slashdot Mirror
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."
Comcast is a problem that needs fixing. They are over selling their lines and causing users problems. And when they talk about high speed net connections i almost go into riot mode. There are no high speed connections in America! As in several other areas we are dragging our butts and leaving skid marks all across the land. Now if we could just lay cable over all those skid marks maybe we could catch up with such bastions of electronic delight as Latvia or Estonia. We are a slow, slow, nation.
You update your blog as frequently as I do, and I don't even have such a shuper-shweet blog! But seriously, man, Putin is HOT.