Reply to: Severed cables disrupt internet

[BrilloPad]

Why did it have to happen over xmas? Hopefully it will occcur every 6 months or so. Prefrably cutting all the cables. Teach the numpty managers at clientco a lesson in contingency planning.....

[cojak]

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

*Finds hubby's bolt cutters in garage, starts shrugging on drysuit and fins - waits for Diver's command...*

*...hopes there's enough air in the tanks from the last dive...*

[scooby]

From his posts I believe that Diver is a salvage bloke, that doesn't preclude him turning his hand to demolitions I suppose

pikey... He's weighing in the cable!

[AtW]

From his posts I believe that Diver is a salvage bloke

Underwater Procurement Officer

[Liability]

I wonder if any Russian subs have been spotted in the area.

LOL - maybe Harry knows.

[TykeMerc]

Where's Diver, hmm?

From his posts I believe that Diver is a salvage bloke, that doesn't preclude him turning his hand to demolitions I suppose

[NickFitz]

Definite slowdown:

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

[TimberWolf]

Those cables are out again. This time three out of four lines are out.

Repair unlikely before 31 December.

Where's Diver, hmm?

[OwlHoot]

Those cables are out again. This time three out of four lines are out.

Repair unlikely before 31 December.

In a statement released in relation to one of the breaks, France Telecom said: "The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain unclear."

I wonder if any Russian subs have been spotted in the area.

[Sysman]

Those cables are out again. This time three out of four lines are out.

Repair unlikely before 31 December.

[PAH]

No more free ring dings?

No, but those Indians are good at providing stuff that give plenty of ring stings. Sponsored by Curries.digital IIRC.

[gadgetman]

No more free ring dings?

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!).

[tay]

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

Sorry

[Dow Jones]

Another outsourced job

Egyptian contractors apparently ! (ship in Alexandria harbour)

[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.