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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This just in... 3 More cut, Not in the Med.

[KookyMan]

Three of four sub-cables connecting Asia-North America have been cut.

This is getting a little crazy, and pardon the tinfoil hat that I'm wearing, how many 'undamaged' cables does this leave?

I think this is really starting to become hard to blame on 'coincidence.'

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