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

[Smith, Donald]

For a map of the impact check this URL.
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/01/mediterranean_cable_break.shtml



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Donald.Smith at qwest.com giac 

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> [mailto:nsp-security-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of 
> Joel Rosenblatt
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:03 AM
> To: nsp-security at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [nsp-sec] Did anyone else see this? -- Internet 
> failure hits twocontinents
> 
> ----------- nsp-security Confidential --------
> 
> >From CNN's Elham Nakhlawai and Mustafa Al Arab
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Hi-tech Dubai has been hit hard by an Internet outage 
> apparently caused by a cut undersea cable.
> 
>  One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, 
> which started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in 
> the Mediterranean.
> 
> India's Internet bandwidth has been sliced in half, The 
> Associated Press reported, leaving its lucrative outsourcing 
> industry trying to reroute traffic to 
> satellites and other cables through Asia.
> 
> Reports say that Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the 
> United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain are also 
> experiencing severe problems.
> 
> Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- 
> whose traffic uses a different route -- and Lebanon and Iraq. 
> Many Middle East governments have 
> backup satellite systems in case of cable failure.
> 
> ...
> 
> <http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html>
> 
> Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
> Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
> 
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