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here's why the 'global' internet at work has been slow.. I did not see this on the news.

The IT guy at work was moaning about it. Apparently my company has been and will be, squirting birds, till this is fixed, and it has not been cheap. There was no announcement at work advising employees to conserve the costly emergency bandwidth.

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http://www.orange.com/en_EN/press/press_releases/cp081219en.html

Three undersea cables cut: traffic greatly disturbed between Europe and Asia/Near East zone
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Paris, December 19, 2008

    * 3 cables cut this morning (Sea Me We3 partly + Sea Me We4 + FLAG)
    * France Telecom Marine cable ship about to depart


France Telecom observed today that 3 major underwater cables were cut: “Sea Me We 4” at 7:28am, “Sea Me We3” at 7:33am and FLAG at 8:06am.
The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain unclear.

Most of the B to B traffic between Europe and Asia is rerouted through the USA.
Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected, but traffic from Europe to the Near East and Asia is interrupted to a greater or lesser extent (see country list below).
Part of the internet traffic towards Réunion is affected as well as 50% towards Jordan.
A first appraisal at 7:44 am UTC gave an estimate of the following impact on the voice traffic (in percentage of out of service capacity):
-    Saudi Arabia: 55% out of service
-    Djibouti: 71% out of service
-    Egypt: 52% out of service
-    United Arab Emirates: 68% out of service
-    India: 82% out of service
-    Lebanon: 16% out of service
-    Malaysia: 42% out of service
-    Maldives: 100% out of service
-    Pakistan: 51% out of service
-    Qatar: 73% out of service
-    Syria: 36% out of service
-    Taiwan: 39% out of service
-    Yemen: 38% out of service
-    Zambia: 62% out of service

France Telecom immediately alerted one of the two maintenance boats based in the Mediterranean area, the “Raymond Croze”. This France Telecom Marine cable ship based at Seyne-sur-Mer has received its mobilization order early this afternoon and will cast off tonight at 3:00 am with 20 kilometers spare cable on board. It should be on location on Monday morning for a relief mission.
Priority will be given to the recovery of the Sea Me We4 cable, then on the Sea Me We3.
By December 25th, Sea Me We4 could be operating. By December 31st, the situation should be back to normal.

Laser equipped sharks are the culprits.

Conspiracy Theories Behind Those Cut Undersea Cables (http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/02/06/conspiracy-theories-behind-those-cut-undersea-cables/?mod=googlenews_wsj)

Don,
Your close but everyone knows its Al Gore in a laser equipped Shark Suit.
He gaveth the internet and he can taketh away...
He must be mad at sumptin'

 ;D

Al-Qaeda bought a Hughes submarine.  The coup starts.

They're not really cable's anyway. Everyone know's the internet is a series of tubes.

AAAH, so maybe that's why my email spam has slowed down!

Here in the Verminmont tundra.....

Tubes would be a major upgrade !

All the more bandwidth for us if they are off.

This got Al's panties in a bunch...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html)

Using crappy science to push an agenda usually does backfire eventually.

Hopefully before the idiot-politicians enact laws based on that crappys science.

"Under my carbon plan, electrical rates will necessarily skyrocket"... Guess who said that.

I'd say, but everytime I post something about the fellow, My post gets removed...  ::)

I don't think there was ever more than about 20% of the US population that believed Al's lie. He spent millions of other people's money in an attempt to 'educate' the masses. As the old saying goes, "A fool and his money are soon parted."