I can only imagine that costs are indeed affected. Companies requesting combatant ship escorts are required to reimburse the escorting nation.
-- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Martin Hannigan <mar...@theicelandguy.com> wrote: > FYI, I thought this was interesting reading for the workaholics among us as > we head into the holiday weekend in the United States. I'd also like to > follow it with an (hopefully) interesting question. > > > http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090520_bandwidth_buyers_price_differences_global_market/ > > The costs of wholesale bandwidth are significantly disparate by region, duh, > but this article demonstrates how disparate. > > I was also recently discussing why some of these costs are disparate with a > colleague in the African region and he had an interesting question that I > thought would be operational enough to ask here. > > Are any African or Middle East costs being influenced by the Somali piracy > problem? Is the deployment of Eassy being impacted by the piracy issue? The > cable ships are sitting ducks for pirate attacks during lay and repair > operations. There's one cable lay operation being guarded by the French > Navy, likely an Alcatel operation. > > I'm interested to hear from anyone with direct knowledge (offline, I'll > summarize back if it's worth it, maybe even a lightning talk for Philly?) on > the impact. I suspect that it's possible that it could add cost to > maintenance agreements with any security caveats, but since most cable > operations taking place now were negotiated before the problem heightened, > perhaps not. I'd like to know if you know. > > Best, > > Martin Hannigan > > > -- > Martin Hannigan mar...@theicelandguy.com > p: +16178216079 > Power, Network, and Costs Consulting for Iceland Datacenters and Occupants >
