Damaged Undersea Cables Prompt Egypt to Ask File-Sharers to Take it Easy
Date : 2008 01 31 Category : Web News
Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technology News
Wants priority to be given to businesses and other, more important interests than downloading movies and MP3s, after damage to 2 undersea cables forced all traffic onto a single cable backup system.
Egyptian users of P2P and file-sharing services are being asked to help out after two of three cables that carry Internet traffic deep under the Mediterranean Sea snapped, disrupting service Thursday across a wide swath of Asia and the Middle Eas
The cables lie undersea just north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria, but repairs could take a week once workers arrive at the site, and engineers were scrambling to reroute traffic to satellites and to other cables.
"Two of our cables are affected; everyone will go onto a third cable," ministry spokesman Mohammed Taymur told AFP.