[nsp-sec] Did anyone else see this? -- Internet failure hits two continents

[Zoe O'Connell]

Joel Rosenblatt wrote:
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> >From CNN's Elham Nakhlawai and Mustafa Al Arab
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> DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
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We have an office out there and it's pretty messy, we though we were 
well covered with redundant 'net connectivity and backup ISDN etc but we 
got to a point on Wednesday where even ISDN and PSTN calls were failing. 
My attempts to reroute traffic via some other route to any of our 
connections in India were futile, I had the same problems going via FLAG 
themselves, Level-3, Abovenet and I even tried BT. Looks like it's 
slowly getting better though.