Severed cables disrupt internet

[BrilloPad]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7218008.stm

"There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.

UK firms such as British Airways have told the BBC that call centres have been affected by the outage.

Industry experts said it could take up to one week to repair the damaged cables and resume full service.

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I hope next time it is 100% disruption. permanently.

[sasguru]

Lets form a team of crack CUK diver commandos to do the needful with much cheapness and plenty of quickness

[Sockpuppet]

I vote Diver as team leader.

[BrilloPad]

Lets form a team of crack CUK diver commandos to do the needful with much cheapness and plenty of quickness

If there is crack going then I am in.

I bet BobShawadiwadi will apply too.

[TimberWolf]

Lets form a team of crack CUK diver commandos to do the needful with much cheapness and plenty of quickness

We'd need to knock out the satellites too. If you supply the rocket I can supply the sand.

[Sockpuppet]

If there is ass crack going then I am in.

I bet BobShawadiwadi will apply too.

Fixed it for ya

[Fran]

Ok so I'm scrapping the barrel of my memory here, but wasn't the internet designed to cope if a conection was lost (something to do with the Cuban missile crisis?). Surely requests will be automatically routed via a different link.

Secondally, who put a cable in reach of a ships anchor and didn't ensure it was strong enough!

[PAH]

I thought my phone had gone quiet with all those call centres trying to sell me insurance, corporate databases, or cialis (not the Maith variety unfortunately, that gets you really hard!).

[Moscow Mule]

Ok so I'm scarpping the barrel of my memory here, but wasn't the internet designed to cope if a conection was lost (something to do with the Cuban missile crisis?). Surely requests will be automatically routed via a different link.

Secondally, who put a cable in reach of a ships anchor and didn't ensure it was strong enough!

It is coping, but it's just a lot slower.

[Dow Jones]

Another outsourced job

Egyptian contractors apparently ! (ship in Alexandria harbour)