Another Undersea Cable Goes Down

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Feb 9

Andrew Taub

February 9, 2008

Know More: Network Services cia, fiber optic, Internet

Last week 3 undersea fiber optic cables went down cause wide spread Internet outages across the Middle East and

India. Now a 4^th cable has gone down; the Qatar-UAE Submarine Cable System, which links

United Arab Emirates to

Qatar.

So many cable failures in such a short period of time, all in the Middle East, has given rise to many conspiracy theories. The leading one is that the CIA has been responsible for the outages, possibly to affect a communications blackout against Iran. However, Iran was not particurally affected by any of the outages. Another theory is that terrorists caused the outages to destabilize the region.

Conspiracy theories aside, the 1^st three cables outages have been blamed on ship’s anchors, but the latest outage is being blamed on a power outage. FLAG, which owns 3 of the damaged cables said they would be repaired bu Sunday.

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