[Outages-discussion] [Fwd: Re: [outages] Internet outages in Mediterranean.]

[Paul Ferguson]

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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:53 PM, virendra rode <virendra.rode at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> As global economy depends on international cables it should treated at
> world's critical infrastructure (connecting the world) specially when
> you have countries that rely on undersea cables for over 95 percent of
> its international voice and data traffic only 7 percent of which could
> be carried via satellite in the event of cable disruption.
>
> We all know how this could impact businesses, government and the general
> public.
>
> I guess what I'm trying to say is there should be collective interest
> (cooperation between all stakeholders) in making sure the path is well
> balanced and diversed.
>

Funny you should mention this topic.

A Reuters newswire article, via Epicenter, reports:

[snip]

Investors should urgently diversify the web of undersea cables that serve
as the world’s information and banking arteries to address soaring demand
and piracy concerns and reduce the risk of catastrophic outages.

So says a report by a multinational research project that calls for the
building of global backup routes for the submarine network that carries
almost all international communications, including financial transactions
and Internet traffic.

The report’s main author, Karl Rauscher of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an international professional body, told
Reuters changes should be made “before we have to learn the hard way.”

“This report is trying to have a September 10 mindset, where you actually
do something about what you know on September 10 to avoid a September 11
situation,” Rauscher, who was an adviser to the U.S. government on cyber
security after the September 11 attacks, said.

An executive summary of the report made available to Reuters says that the
current probability of a global or regional failure of the network is very
low, but is “not zero.”

[snip]

More here:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/undersea-telecoms-cables-face-growin
g-risks-report/

- - ferg

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