Posted on 02/09/2008 8:52:55 PM PST by shield
DUBAI — An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage, an expert said yesterday, quoting recent figures published by TeleGeography, an international research Web site.
Internet data was majorly affected as it is the biggest capacity carried by the undersea cables.
However, all voice calls, corporate data and video traffic were also affected.
Two du experts yesterday briefed the media on the current methods being undertaken by the telecom provider to re-route the Internet traffic to provide normalcy to the users.
Quoting TeleGeography and describing the effect the cuts had on the Internet world, Mahesh Jaishanker, executive director, Business Development and Marketing, du, said, “The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.”
A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
(Excerpt) Read more at khaleejtimes.com ...
While attention is fixated on Iraq and Afghanistan, the possibility of a number of other wars clearly emerged in the past few days, three in particular.
Starting January 30, a total of five undersea telecom cables have been mysteriously cut in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East area. This is no accident, comrades. Someone has been slicing them. Someone with submarines to do the slicing. Who could that be? And what would be their target?
90% of all internet traffic is handled by undersea cables. So take a look at the Internet Traffic Report for Asia (current as of this writing 2/7). Take a look at the only orange box with a fat zero of traffic and a packet loss of 100%.
Iran has been taken down.
Now gander at this story in Monday's (2/4) Jerusalem Post: US Anti-Missile Ship Docks in Haifa. It notes that the Aegis system on the USS San Jacinto can protect Israel from a missile attack from Iran.
Only our navy and Israel's has subs that could have cut the cables. Is this a prelude to an attack by either us or Israel on Iran, or is it a big time intimidation shot across Iran's bow? It's not clear - but it is clear that's it's one or the other, and either way, there are a lot of very nervous mullahs in Tehran right now.
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Wasn’t this a Clive Cussler book? Or was it Tom Clancy??
Where’s Dirk Pitt and Jack Ryan when you need them?!?
Good analysis.
A shot across their bow? Perhaps. But the Persians were never a maritime power and wouldn’t recognize it as such.
BTTT.
This is the biggest news story of the week, sliding past everyone’s radar.
It’s not about us attacking Iran; it’s about us tracking down the physical location of the sender of attack signals to distributed terror cells.
When the 2nd internet cable was cut, you can find my post here on FR where I stated that more cuts would follow as net traffic was narrowed down further and further to limit the potential areas where a command originated.
Now 5 cables have been cut.
Had this been a prelude to an actual attack on Iran, the cables would have been cut less than an hour before missiles were in the air.
Yes, I do agree.
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I think he said it was either or
Or it could’ve been a wayward anchor-
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/08/internet.outage/index.html?eref=rss_tech
That’s a lot less fun, though.
Bingo!
All it takes is a little bit of Internet research and thinking to debunk the article's conclusions.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/history/267.htm
but the site for the President is up:
In recent days a lot of major corporations have been wondering about the “wisdom” of exporting their call centers to a suddenly incommunicado India. Popcorn, front and center.
It can be grappled for, deliberately, from the surface. Cable repair ships retrieve the cables in that manner.
With enough ship & horsepower available, I bet I could find and break one, there in the shallow Persian Gulf waters. It would be pretty easy, actually.
I once saw an old [and then defunct] phone cable at the stern of the boat, draped over a trawl door --- and that was dragging it up out of 400+ fathoms of water! Someone had been there before we had, though, had snagged it, broke it, and left a bunch laying where it would be caught. I saw a kink in the cable...right near the door. Can't quite remember precisely how we got free of it, but we did, somehow.
DU experts? I think I see the problem...
Well, maybe I’d agree IF ... it wasn’t the ME. It appears some sort of joint op with Israel...somethin’ is up.
Your comments make sense. It will be interesting when it is revealed exactly what is going on here. You may be right on target.
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