الموضوع أكبر من مجرد باخرة وكيبل خربان

مره ثانيه و ثالثه نرد لموضوع كابلات الانترنت و لكن هالمره مع تحليل له مغزى سياسي على ما يبدو و خطير جداً و سابقة جديده في عالم الإرهاب او الإستخبارات

بتاريخ 31/1/2008
تضرر كابلين في البحر الابيض المتوسط بواسطه باخره
اوكي شيء يتصدق مع إن القانون ينص بعدم إقتراب السفن من مسافة 5 أميال عن الكابل
(مع العلم أن موضوع الباخره طلع كلام فاضي في التقارير اللاحقه في الموضوع )

Major Internet service outages in Egypt and India caused by cut fiber optic cables

A pair of undersea cables near the Egyptian port of Alexandria was accidentally ruptured this morning, leading to loss of Internet services for some parts of the Middle East. Speculation says that the cables were unintentionally cut by a ships anchor.

Bad weather could have caused ships in the area to need to drop anchor and sabotage is not suspected at this time.

U.S. based Verizon is part owner of the cables and told the Financial Times it had not yet determined the cause of the cable breakage. A spokesperson says, “We have seen some ships going through an area dragging their anchors.”

The outage led Tarek Amer, Egypt’s deputy central bank governor to say, “We are disappointed [with] the service and will consider alternatives for the banking system if this happens again.”

Reports from India claim Internet bandwidth has been reduced 50-60%, but officials say that a degraded service will be available soon. According to Verizon is could take days to fix the damaged cables since ships have to be dispatched and then find the cables and make repairs to them.

Local media in both Egypt and India encourage users to reduce Internet traffic to a minimum.

A new and supposedly disaster-proof fiber optic cable is under construction to provide access between the U.S. and Asia with a cost reported to be near $500 million USD. New cables use different shielding techniques and sheer at designated points in the event of an anchor collision.
الرابط 1

بتاريخ 1/2/2008
تعطل كيبل بالقرب من ساحل دبي
بعد يوم واحد من الحادثه الأولى و بنفس السبب
يمكن صدفه و نتابع ……

Third undersea cable cut Friday, Egypt says cuts not caused by ships

Egyptian authorities originally reported two cables were cut by fishing boat anchors. CNN now reports that three cables serving the Middle East have been cut. The two cables last week include the FLAG Telecom FLAG Europe–Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4 on Wednesday January 30. On Friday February 1 it was announced that a third cable was severed leaving Dubai with no Internet connection.

As of Friday FLAG Telecom states it is unclear what caused the breakage of the undersea cables according to CNN. Egypt’s Ministry of Communications reversed its statement since Friday, claiming now that no ships were present when the first two undersea cables were cut.

The ministry released a statement saying, “A marine transport committee investigated the traffic of ships in the area, 12 hours before and after the malfunction, where the cables are located to figure out the possibility of being cut by a passing vessel and found out there were no passing ships at that time.”

The Egyptian ministry also added that the area where the cables are located, which is about five miles from the port of Alexandria, is a restricted area and ships are not allowed in the area. No further speculation on what could have caused the three cables to be severed is available at this time. Officials estimate that full service in Egypt won’t be available for another ten days.
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بتاريخ 5/2/2008
تضرر الكابل الرابع خلال فتره لا تتجاوز الأسبوع و لاسباب مجهوله مثل ماصار مع الكابلات السابقه
هني إذا حد قالي باخره انا بدوس في بطنه
ياناس شيء ما يتصدق و تابعوا معاي

Fourth undersea cable cut seems too much to be coincidence

As Sherlock Holmes would say, the game is afoot! Many will agree that two undersea cables getting cut in the same location is conceivable. Add a third undersea cable cut two days later and things get strange.

Throw in a fourth undersea cable getting cut in less than a week and it’s hard to not think something strange is going on. According to ArabianBusiness.com a fourth undersea Internet and telephone cable was severed. Qatar Telecom (Qtel) announced on Sunday that the fourth cable running between the Qatari island of Haloul and the United Arab Emirate island of Das was damaged.

ArabianBusiness.com reports that it was told unofficially that the cable breakage in this case wasn’t caused by a ship, but was related to the power supply. DailyTech reported yesterday that the mystery behind the breakage of the undersea cables deepened with the announcement from Egyptian authorities that no ships were in the area of the first two cables when the damage occurred near the Egyptian port of Alexandria.

Qtel says that its capacity loss was kept below 40% because of a large number of alternate routes for transmission. The repair ship due to set out and make repairs to the third severed cable was kept in port over last weekend due to bad weather, but it was scheduled to leave Monday and repairs are expected to take five days.
الرابط 3

بتاريخ 6/2/2008
الكابل الخامس و رقم قياسي جديد يتسجل بإسم مجهول
في أقل من اسبوع معقوله تتضرر 5 كابلات في أعماق المحيطات و كل هذا بالصدفه او بنفس السبب

Bad to Worse: Fifth Undersea Cable Cut in Middle East

Reports are coming in this morning that a fifth undersea fiber optic cable was severed in the Middle East. However, by several accounts, the fifth cable cut is actually a second cut on a different segment of the FALCON cable. How exactly these cables are being cut is still unknown, though Egyptian officials maintain a ship didn’t cause the breakages near the port of Alexandria.

The saga of cut cables and lost bandwidth began on January 23 when the Flag Telecoms FALCON undersea fiber optic cable near the Egyptian port of Alexandria was severed. On January 30 another cable called the SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East- Western Europe-4) cable was cut according to the Khaleej Times Online. Egyptian officials said that a review of ship traffic in the area at the time of the breakage precludes the damage being caused by a ships anchor.

Khaleej Times Online reports that on February 1 another cut appeared in the FALCON cable, which resulted in severe disruption of data service in the Gulf region. The rundown of cut cables in the region includes the FLAG Europe-Asia cable near Alexandria, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran, SeaMeWe-4 near Alexandria, SeaMeWe-4 near Penang, Malaysia, and FLAG near the Dubai coast.

Mahesh Jaishanker executive director of Business Development and Marketing for TeleGeography is quoted by the Khaleej Times Online as saying, “The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.”
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