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Destroy All Bandwidth!

in News on February 20, 2008 at 12:39 am PT

During the week of Jan. 28, Internet access to a large portion of the Middle East and South Asia was disrupted when five undersea Internet cables were cut or damaged in relatively quick succession. Egypt lost about 70% of its Internet capacity, India about 50%. What caused the disruptions? Finding five accidental failures in a [...]