Looks like you can still make phone calls into Egypt. So it's not totally lights out...
Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 101 Haskins Way, So. San Francisco, CA. 94080 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 Fax: +1 650 246 8901 / carlos *at* race.com / www.race.com -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawgs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:46 PM To: Joel Jaeggli Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: > On 1/27/11 10:49 PM, Roy wrote: >> Moral of the story: Separate facts from assumptions and guesses. I >> did some Google searches and that region has had large scale >> disruptions in the past. Several cables follow the same path to the >> Suez canal and were hit. > > my links through the region are all fine, but they don't jump off the > cable in egypt just pass through. > >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_d >> isr >> uption >> To my knowledge, no one has reported any cable problems in Norther Africa - -- and news of those problems generally travels very fast. :-) Also, if there *was* a cable problem on one of the paths through the vicinity, it affect more than just Egypt: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg I don't think it takes a leap of imagination to understand what has happened here. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFNQnQ0q1pz9mNUZTMRAoFQAKCE8P0wINouFWUvW9GFn7FR6XVmOwCdGV/i VzTaxnJQOPVqyY2bP8ZraDA= =daOC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
