willay
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For those of you who are currently following the story on the Middle East fibre cuts (I'm sure theres not alot of you  )
http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2008/02/where-is-uss-jimmy-carter.html
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Marc
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VAGweb conspiracy takeover?
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willay
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Possibly, I have a client whos just getting on their feet to trade from Dubai, silly fuckers decided to run most of it over the Internet back to london. oooops
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Marc
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Oops
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willay
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thing to rememebr is last week it was one cable, now we have had FOUR cables snipped
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John
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Now 5 cables.
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Paul_J
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surely by cutting most of the cables, it'd be more likely to cause the traffic to have to route through the surviving cable...
thus if they had a tap on 1 cable, cut the rest and the 1 cable now has more proportion of traffic going through it.
that is unless it just re routes round the world another way, or another undersea cable in the area.
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John
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You can't tap the cable without disrupting it, so trying to tap the surviving one would also cut that.
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drunkenfool
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Yeah i had been following the story, interesting theory!
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quote:
Originally posted by Paul_J
surely by cutting most of the cables, it'd be more likely to cause the traffic to have to route through the surviving cable...
thus if they had a tap on 1 cable, cut the rest and the 1 cable now has more proportion of traffic going through it.
that is unless it just re routes round the world another way, or another undersea cable in the area.
when it comes to global routing theres always going to be more then one route into a place like dubai, but if all the traffic goes down one link instead of two, three etc then it will be mega busy.
I also read some theories that maybe the US have a tap on one of the routes out, so by cutting the other routes they are forcing all the traffic to go through their tap
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Matt H
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With they'd do this to fucking Nigeria instead 
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