[outages] Syria off the net

[Sven Olaf Kamphuis]

for your info, the only decent transit pop for most the midddle east seems 
to be turkey and the rest of them simply have wires going to turkey, which 
can be blown up, cut in half, hit by a bomb, you name it.

so the 'terrorist' story is more likely than it seems.

however, if they're not interested in offers for getting their somewhat 
limited internet back up to its normal somewhat limited state, then we know 
enough, don't we :P (ie: then they're lying about the terrorists)

(quite sure the payment would be the least of the issues ;)

just send them an invoice for a bunch of brand new mercedes zetrosses plus 
satellite uplink set plus routing equipment and its fine.

> has anyone tried contacting their  embassy, as when it really were 
> terrorists, they would probably be more than interested in getting some 
> alternative links... a few 622mbit radio links or sattelite transponders
> would already suffice. (too bad for the 12 second rtt but at least it works 
> ;)
>
> or are we the only ones to have trucks for that purpose :P
> (just how to get them there remains the question ;)
>
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> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, walkabouttigger wrote:
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>> We received a voice call via satellite phone approximately 2 hours ago from
>> an engineer in country.
>> Although the claim is that "terrorists" destroyed the Internet and cellular
>> connections, we're all aware the type of concerted effort required to
>> disconnect an entire country is likely something only a sovereign
>> government would be capable of doing.  Our engineer is working to get out
>> of the country as government violence has significantly escalated.
>> 
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