12 posts and columns on undersea cable

Heads, We Call it “Brinternet”–Tails, “SergeyCom”

in News on February 10, 2010 at 9:04 am PT

For the past few years, we’ve been hearing rumblings about Google leasing hundreds of thousands of square feet of carrier hotel space, buying up dark fiber, mulling the purchase of hundreds of millions of dollars in DWDM and Ethernet-based telecom equipment and helping to build out a trans-Pacific multi-terabit undersea cable. Now we know why. Google is developing its own 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home Internet service.

Damn Undersea Cable's Gone Out AGAIN!

in News on December 19, 2008 at 2:50 pm PT

Has Architeuthis TCP/IP struck again? Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were severely disrupted today when three major undersea data cables running under the Mediterranean between southern Italy and Egypt were severed.

Damn Undersea Cable’s Gone Out AGAIN!

in News on December 19, 2008 at 2:50 pm PT

Has Architeuthis TCP/IP struck again? Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were severely disrupted today when three major undersea data cables running under the Mediterranean between southern Italy and Egypt were severed.

New From Google: Google Undersea Data Cable

in News on February 26, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It's From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir

in News on February 26, 2008 at 5:27 am PT

If your corporate mission is to organize the world’s ever-increasing mass of digital information and make it universally accessible and useful, sooner or later the telecom costs and peering fees associated with the transmission of that information are going to get, you know, quite large. So large, in fact, that it may make sense to build out your own network.

The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It’s From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir

in News on February 26, 2008 at 5:27 am PT

If your corporate mission is to organize the world’s ever-increasing mass of digital information and make it universally accessible and useful, sooner or later the telecom costs and peering fees associated with the transmission of that information are going to get, you know, quite large. So large, in fact, that it may make sense to build out your own network.

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 [...]

Yahoo: "A Lot to Be Excited About"

in News on February 6, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Yahoo: “A Lot to Be Excited About”

in News on February 6, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Architeuthis TCP/IP Strikes Again!

in News on February 6, 2008 at 9:28 am PT

Undersea Internet cable damage is hardly unusual, but four five cables severed in one week? Seems a bit odd, doesn’t it? Last Wednesday, two cables in the Mediterranean were cut, disrupting Internet traffic from Egypt to India. On Friday, a third cable was cut, this one in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of the [...]

Heads, We Call It 'Brinternet'; Tails, We Call It ‘SergeyCom'

in News, September 21, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Heads, We Call It ‘Brinternet’; Tails, We Call It ‘SergeyCom’

in News, September 21, 2007 at 11:00 am PT