dock98 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 When news broke Jan. 31 that an undersea fiber-optic cable owned by India's Reliance Communications had been accidentally sliced by a ship's anchor in Egypt, people feared a possible replay of 2006. That's when an earthquake in Taiwan disrupted Internet traffic in East Asia for nearly two weeks. India, where the Internet is the lifeblood of the outsourcing industry, was considered particularly vulnerable. Happily for Reliance (which did not respond to phone calls), and for Indian outsourcing giants Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , Infosys (INFY), Wipro (WIT), and Satyam Computer Services, which use such undersea fiber-optic cables, no serious problems occurred. Neither, it appears, have the global operations of multinational tech players like IBM (IBM) skipped a beat. True, some of India's Internet cafes saw connection speeds slow dramatically, so the time needed to connect to Google increased 60 times—from two seconds to two minutes—but overall the economic impact of the accident has proven minimal for India. It could have been much, much worse. According to the Internet Service Providers Assn. of India, nearly half of the 25 gigabits of bandwidth India uses relies on cables, of which 60% snake under the Atlantic Ocean. The rest is routed through the Pacific. full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Geez, If someone calculates the odds of a ship anchor taking out a fiber line, Ill give them a cookie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Geez, If someone calculates the odds of a ship anchor taking out a fiber line, Ill give them a cookie.depends on what kinda cookie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 lol that was funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Geez, If someone calculates the odds of a ship anchor taking out a fiber line, Ill give them a cookie.depends on what kinda cookie.I think this kind... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 good one l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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