Decreased/non-existant connectivity to the Middle-East

Published: 2008-01-30. Last Updated: 2008-01-31 02:14:10 UTC
by Toby Kohlenberg (Version: 2)
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There are a number of sties reporting that the undersea cable that connected Italy and Egypt has been cut, resulting in a fairly complete outage of Internet connectivity in many parts of the Middle-East.

Additional details here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/india_mideast_lose_internet/

UPDATE 1:

See http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/01/mediterranean_cable_break.shtml for additional technical information.

 

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