RSSRepairs begin to critical undersea data cables
By Tim Conneally | Published February 5, 2008, 3:40 PM
Two of the four undersea cables that provide data to much of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia which were severed late last week are now undergoing repair.
Reuters reported today that FALCON, the third of the cables to be cut on Friday evening, is currently being repaired. FLAG telecom's repair team was at first delayed in Abu Dhabi, UAE due to untoward weather, but has since managed to lay anchor at the break site despite what the group called "extreme weather conditions."
The work requires a team of approximately 50 technicians, navigation experts, and cable engineers to be on site for approximately one week per break. Due to the close proximity between FALCON and SEA-ME-WE-4 -- the line beginning in Marseille, France and ending in Singapore -- the same marine repair unit is scheduled to handle both.
A repair ship dispatched to the other cable owned by FLAG/Reliance Communications which was cut has not yet reported arrival.
The most recent cable severance took place on Friday between the Quatari Island of Haloul and the United Arab Emirates island Das about 100 miles northwest of the mainland, Quatar Telecom reported on Sunday. The cause of the latest outage has not been determined, but unofficial reports say it is due to a power grid failure, unlike the others which had been speculatively blamed on a "dragged anchor."
Most of the traffic that was typically handled by the cut cables has been re-routed to others, noticeably limiting the data and telephone capacity of affected countries, but still keeping them connected.
typical moronic responses.. 5 fibre cables were cut most likely with explosive cutting charges to bring down the internet in the middle east to put a dent in the Iranian Oil Bourse that opened up this week to sell it's oil in other currencies other than the worthless US dollar. You can bet the war drums will be banging quite soon when other middle east oil rich countries abandon the worthless US dollar that's backed by nothing but paper.
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|Take it elsewhere.
You are a friggin' billboard for contraception.
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|Animal, vegetable or mineral.--
If mineral, somebody put the cables on a sharp
rock, and ocean currents... IMO, unlikely.
Vegetable? The Killer Tomatoes are back. RUN!
Animal--Either human or shark. Can't decide
which, but if human it would be psycho religious
types.
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|Never underestimate us psycho non-religious types...
The guys in black Explorers should be here any minute now...
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|I hadn't thought of a motive for the secular psychos.
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|Motive?
We don't need to steenkin' motive.
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|The funniest explanation I have heard so far is that the Pirate Bay cut the cables to run them to their new secret island.
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|I would have just spliced them, but you never can tell with those pirate types...
Yarrr...
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|The "dragged anchor" theory was debunked two days ago, because there were no ships in the area. There is currently no valid explanation for the breaks.
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|Space aliens broke them ...Hugo Chaves is on his way to fix it with his oil reserves
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|Damn, that means they'll find where I put Hoffa....
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|Unless our fabulous NSA decided to do some covert splicing of their own out there and kind of f*cked up on the way out. Welp, back to the drawing board with AT&T.. doh!
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|"...but has since managed to lay anchor at the break site off the despite the "extreme weather conditions," according to FLAG."
Slight nitpick, but it does not make sense.
..but has since managed to lay anchor at the break site, despite the "extreme weather conditions," according to FLAG.
This would however make it understandable.
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|I take it my error report was not taken kindly ?
-1 ??
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|Maybe they have a vendetta against commas, as they basically fixed the article to use your suggestion without the comma...
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|It didn't make sense with the "off the" part. Off the what?, coast? Break?. It was fixed as per my suggestion and then reworked again to remove the "according to FLAG." part.
Im just mystified why my comment would require a markdown.
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|probably not.
They usually mod down error reports after fixing them to clear up the clutter and to not make the poster look like a moron once the error is fixed...
Call it a courtesy. :)
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