[outages] Syria off the net

[Carl Brooks]

If anyone wants a State Dept contact in regards to the Syrian network
blockade, please drop me a line.

Carl Brooks
Analyst, IT infrastructure and cloud
Tier 1 and 451 Research
Carl.brooks at 4 <mailto:Carl.brooks at tier1research.com>51research.com
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On 11/30/12 1:21 PM, "francis.daigneault at bell.ca"
<francis.daigneault at bell.ca> wrote:

>Before anyone tell me I know it's not the place for discussion, so it
>would be my only mail about it :) but if you know  colleague, worker,
>friend family or whoever those info can be useful feel free to transmit
>to them if you ever get a way to reach them, like those using satellite
>phone.
>
>I don't manage those link, so I can't guarantee they still work, but they
>have been activate for the isolate people of Syria.. and I also know even
>land line have been shut at many place so it could be hard to use.. but
>maybe it could be useful for someone here..
>
>Internet dial up access +46850009990 +492317299993 +4953160941030
>user:telecomix password:telecomix OR +33172890150 login:toto
>password:toto 
>
>Call +902123391447 or +302111982716 or +390662207294 or +16504194196.
>Press 1 to tweet, 2 to hear tweets
>
>
>-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--
>Francis Daigneault (CCNP,MCSE,ECSA|LPT)
>KNOWLEDGE IS FREE !
>
> 
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On
>Behalf Of Sven Olaf Kamphuis
>Sent: November-30-12 1:14 PM
>To: walkabouttigger
>Cc: outages at outages.org
>Subject: Re: [outages] Syria off the net
>
>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:
>>
>>> 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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