Ravikiran Rao
Feb 1st, 2008

The Undersea Cables

Wired has a good roundup of the news related to the two fibre optic undersea cables snapping. There is also a link to a rather long article on the history of undersea cables written by one of my favourite writers - Neal Stephenson - when the first cable was laid.

And does anyone know why I am not affected at all sitting here in Hyderabad? Neither my home nor my office connection is affected. Office connection I can understand, but home?

4 Responses to “The Undersea Cables”

  1. # ashwinon 01 Feb 2008 at 8:32 pm

    you are being connected via the undersea links at SG? :)

  2. # Ravageson 01 Feb 2008 at 9:43 pm

    Yeah. Must be the Madras Singapore cable.

  3. # Ravikiran Raoon 02 Feb 2008 at 7:11 am

    Must be.

  4. # Nitinon 03 Feb 2008 at 5:06 pm

    Diversity.

    The main telcos have access to alternate routes via satellite or other cables.

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