Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-03-01 Thread Georgios Theodoridis
I would like to deeply thank you all for your prompt response as well as for your generous contribution and the most interesting information that you shared. Of course any further insight is still more than welcome. Best regards, George On 03/02/2012 01:22 AM, Jim Cowie wrote: On Thu, Mar

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-03-01 Thread Jim Cowie
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Georgios Theodoridis wrote: > Has it been known the exact time of the incident? > I have found an article reporting that the cut occurred in the mid-day of > Saturday 25th but nothing more precise. > We would like to use such information for a BGP anomaly detection

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-03-01 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:17 17AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner > wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: >> >>> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research >>> facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-03-01 Thread Andree Toonk
Hi Georgios, .-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 12-03-01 1:11 AM Georgios Theodoridis wrote: > Has it been known the exact time of the incident? > I have found an article reporting that the cut occurred in the mid-day > of Saturday 25th but nothing more precise. > We would like to use

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-03-01 Thread Frank Habicht
On 3/1/2012 5:54 PM, Oliver Garraux wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Georgios Theodoridis wrote: >> Has it been known the exact time of the incident? >> I have found an article reporting that the cut occurred in the mid-day of >> Saturday 25th but nothing more precise. >> We would like to

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-03-01 Thread Oliver Garraux
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Georgios Theodoridis wrote: > Has it been known the exact time of the incident? > I have found an article reporting that the cut occurred in the mid-day of > Saturday 25th but nothing more precise. > We would like to use such information for a BGP anomaly detection

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-03-01 Thread Georgios Theodoridis
Has it been known the exact time of the incident? I have found an article reporting that the cut occurred in the mid-day of Saturday 25th but nothing more precise. We would like to use such information for a BGP anomaly detection analysis that we are carrying out in our research centre. Thanks

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Dmitry Burkov
On Mar 1, 2012, at 10:12 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > we had an instance of "B" root there for a season. connectivity was a > problem and > we pulled the node in 2001. > > /bill You should install it on sattelite dima > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:45:16PM -0800, Bill W

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread bmanning
we had an instance of "B" root there for a season. connectivity was a problem and we pulled the node in 2001. /bill On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:45:16PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner >> wrote: >>> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: >>> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Mehmet Akcin
On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner > wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: >> >>> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research >>> facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Rob Evans
> Constantly shifting ice shelves and glaciers make a terrestrial cable > landing very difficult to implement on Antarctica.  Satellite connectivity > is likely the only feasible option.  There are very few places in > Antarctica that are reliably ice-free enough of the time to make a viable > terr

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: > >> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research >> facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no fiber end points on >> that continent? This can't be true. > >

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no fiber end points on that continent? This can't be true. Constantly shifting ice shelves and glaciers make a terrestrial cable l

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:37:40 EST, Rodrick Brown said: > There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research > facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no fiber end points on that > continent? This can't be true. Cost-benefit. A dozen sites, each with only 100-200 people

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Jan Schaumann
Joly MacFie wrote: > A comment on the WSJ > storycontains > a link to a great map. > > http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ I always liked this one, too: http://is.gd/DXcddb (Yes, flash. Still.) -Jan pgp4IKk8HiXGd.p

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Rodrick Brown
On Feb 29, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Joly MacFie wrote: > A comment on the WSJ > storycontains > a link to a great map. > > http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government rese

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Mike Andrews
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:33:04PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrot

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-29 Thread Joly MacFie
A comment on the WSJ storycontains a link to a great map. http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ -- --- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC -

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-28 Thread Greg Ihnen
On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: >>> Is anyone seeing this ? >>> >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-afri

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-28 Thread Mike Andrews
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > Is anyone seeing this ? > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544 > > > > "East Africa's high-speed internet ac

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-27 Thread virendra rode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > Is anyone seeing this ? > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544 > > "East Africa's high-speed internet access has been severely disrupted > after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-opt

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-27 Thread Oliver Garraux
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Graham Beneke wrote: > On 27/02/2012 18:11, Marshall Eubanks wrote: >> >> Is anyone seeing this ? >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544 > > > Along with: > http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/44263-triple-whammy-hits-eassy.html > > The east is s

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-27 Thread Graham Beneke
On 27/02/2012 18:11, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Is anyone seeing this ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544 Along with: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/telecoms/44263-triple-whammy-hits-eassy.html The east is struggling with outages. -- Graham Beneke

BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-02-27 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Is anyone seeing this ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17179544 "East Africa's high-speed internet access has been severely disrupted after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-optic cables off Kenya's coast." Regards Marshall