Just shy of a year ago, I blogged about a massive undersea cable cut that crippled connectivity across much of Egypt and India, thought to be caused by a ship’s anchor. I thought for sure this not-so-natural disaster and its devastating results on communications in this part of the world would be a wake-up call […]
Yesterday morning, many die-hard baseball fans got up extra early to watch the Red Sox/Athletics season opener in Japan, only to be given an even ruder awakening than the sound of their alarm clocks - a blank TV screen when they tried to watch the game. DirecTV (and some Comcast) customers missed most or all of […]
On Tuesday night this week while I was preparing for the VPIsystems sales conference, a massive undersea network cable was cut and Internet access was crippled across much of Egypt and India (a trade group estimates about 60 percent of India’s Internet users were affected). I was especially interested to read about the disruption, […]
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