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Bosc Ulrich II
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail
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High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
Hi-tech Dubai has been hit hard by an Internet outage apparently caused by a cut undersea cable.
Industry experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage.
Reports say that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems.
Nations that have been spared the chaos include Israel -- whose traffic uses a different route -- and Lebanon and Iraq. Many Middle East governments have backup satellite systems in case of cable failure.
The head of an Egyptian Internet service provider called the situation a "wake-up call" for the region, which he said is too dependent on underground lines and does not have a strong enough back-up system. Mohammed Amir, head of Quantum, an ISP in Cairo, described the situation as "a major problem," but expressed hope that the worst of it is over.
The two cables damaged are FLAG Telecom's FLAG Europe-Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4, a cable owned by a consortium of more than a dozen telecommunications companies, Beckert said.
He added the options while those cables are repaired were re-routing traffic around the globe or using an older undamaged cable that has less capacity -- both of which would cause usage delays.
Kuwait's Ministry of Communications said the problem could take two weeks to solve, according to a statement carried by the state news agency, KUNA. |
Two cables. TWO underground cables servicing that many countries. That's fucking brilliant.
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Hounsy
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couple of our on-line services have been flakey today...wonder if it is related.
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saskhab
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And here I thought this was because support for Netscape Navigator ends today.
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Bell Centre Ghost
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| And here I thought this was because support for Netscape Navigator ends today. |
Today? I thought it was next month?!
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Lillith
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What scared me is that I was on the road in New Jersey and accessing the internet with a "hotel" connection. I couldn't reach OTP, for days.. I had no way of knowing if it was my connection or if OTP was down. And I had NO e-mail address of any member.
That will change. I know a couple guys that will exchange e-mail addresses with me. So I won't be totally out of the loop.
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razzmatazz
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Am I the only one that finds it funny that Iraq is humming along, business as usual?  |
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shoe
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| Am I the only one that finds it funny that Iraq is humming along, business as usual? |
Ironic, maybe. I can't say I find Iraq funny.
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saskhab
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| And here I thought this was because support for Netscape Navigator ends today. |
Today? I thought it was next month?! |
You realize that Friday was "next month" from January, right?
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