{"id":2792,"date":"2008-01-31T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2008-01-31T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T16:42:23","slug":"hanging-on-by-a-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2792","title":{"rendered":"Hanging on by a thread."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/800px-sea-me-we-4-route.jpg\" title=\"Map of the Undersea Communications of the Middle East\/Asia.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/800px-sea-me-we-4-route.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the Undersea Communications of the Middle East\/Asia.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Large area&#8217;s of the Middle East and Asia are without the Internet today due to what some believe is a severed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SEA-ME-WE_4_(cable_system)\" title=\"Wikipedia:  SEA-ME-WE 4 \">cable <\/a>in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mediterranean_Sea\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Mediterranean Sea.\">Mediterranean Sea<\/a> between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandria%2C_Egypt\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Alexandria.\">Alexandria, Egypt<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palermo%2C_Italy\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Palermo.\">Palermo, Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Internet bandwidth has been sliced in half, The Associated Press reported, leaving its lucrative outsourcing industry trying to reroute traffic to satellites and other cables through Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say that Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain are also experiencing severe problems.<\/p>\n<p>An official at Egypt&#8217;s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was believed that a boat&#8217;s anchor may have caused the problems, although this was unconfirmed, AP reported. He added that it might take up to a week to repair the fault.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is pretty amazing if you think about it:  Nearly the entire Middle East and India rely on 1 underwater cable for over 50% of their Internet access (IE connection to the outside world).  We&#8217;re really not that far from the days of a single <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Transatlantic Cable.\">Transatlantic Cable<\/a> that was prone to snapping.  Of course there are backup systems in place for critical communications where Satallite&#8217;s will do but for the average business and consumer this cable is thier sole source of information.  Good to know a small boat with an anchor can still reek havoc on the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time good luck calling any kind of technical support that resides in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" title=\"Wikipedia: India.\">India<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Series_of_tubes\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Series of Tubes.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Series_of_tubes\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Series of Tubes.\">Series of tubes<\/a> my ass.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large area&#8217;s of the Middle East and Asia are without the Internet today due to what some believe is a severed cable in the Mediterranean Sea between Alexandria, Egypt and Palermo, Italy. One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean. 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