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Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

  • From: Martin Hannigan
  • Date: Thu Jan 31 11:38:44 2008
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On Jan 31, 2008 11:20 AM, Rod Beck <[email protected]> wrote:
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> http://www.kisca.org.uk/Web_SWApproaches.pdf
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>  And if you enlarge the map, you can see little dots on the lines
> representing the cables that denote repairs.
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>  Lots and lots of repairs. Treacherous waters.
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>


The distances are consistent with repeaters/op amps. And the chart
legend notates the same.

Coincidentally, Telecom Egypt announced a new cable to be built by
Alcatel-Lucent this morning. TE North, which looks like it's going
from Egypt to France, is an 8 pair system (128 x 10Gb/s x 8).

Thanks for your input.

-M<