Something mighty strange going on here - Fourth cable cut in Mideast

http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=525

by edw519 • 18 years ago

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johnrob• 18 years ago

I wonder if the bottom of the ocean would be a good place for a datacenter, networked directly to those cables. There would be ample opportunities for power generation and cooling.

simianstyle• 18 years ago

Not if the cloverfield monster has anything to say about it.

yters4• 18 years ago

Do you know if the environment would put undue wear and tear on the equipment housing? I don't know much about undersea material constraints. Otherwise, that's an interesting idea. One of my favorite books as a kid was about scientists who lived under the sea.

Alex39172• 18 years ago

I'm not sure about underwater, but one way to save lots of money on a datacenter would be to build it on the shore next to a deep body of water and a massive bandwidth supply. That way you can chill the datacenter using Lake Source Cooling, which cuts power consumption by ~80%. If you're ever in Ithaca there is a huge LSC plant on Cayuga Lake that's insanely cool to walk around in.

vlad• 18 years ago

An enclosed structure located where you're describing would be under incredible pressure from the water above, unless it's close to the surface. Also you would need people to man it. They wouldn't last long without sunlight. Finally, hard drives, switches, and other items fail all the time. You would need a storage area for food, water, shelter, and replacement gadgets, as well as toilets of some type.

Alex39172• 18 years ago

And the new moon is February 7th. (The most preferable night to start a stealth bombing campaign.)

nickb2• 18 years ago

Another pointless war's coming. :(

yters4• 18 years ago

How would cut cables affect things? Merely stopping the rest of the world from knowing what's going on?

nickb2• 18 years ago

You disrupt communication. One of the first casualties of war is truth. You want to prevent it getting out.

sosuke• 18 years ago

I read (Slashdot): "A commenter notes that despite the language in the article indicated a break or malfunction, the cable wasn't cut. It was taken offline due to power issues."

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/02/04/0158249.shtml

TheTarquin• 18 years ago

While it does bear some consideration I think that some of the first acts of aggression in both world wars were attacks against underwater telegraph cabling, I'd be a little hesitant to jump to conclusions too quickly. There are a number of reasons why and how suchs cables could be taken offline. Sosuke mentioned one in particular: power issues. One of the first transatlantic telegraph cables was fried when the first operators, thinking it would take tons of power to "push" a signal all the way across the Atlantic, fried the cable and much of the equipment on the far end. While these aren't telegraph cables, the principle is the same. They may well have been taken offline because of recurrent power issues at one end or the other.

Then again this maybe a prelude to another country in the Middle East getting pummeled. IMO, it's hard to say at this point.

noonespecial• 18 years ago

My guess is the NSA. They finally think they're able to tap fiber and like fools are running around willy nilly splicing in taps to undersea cables in that area in order to stop the tur-ists.

Should we quietly do them one at a time so no one will notice? Heck no, then the tur-ists would win!

Something mighty strange going on here - Fourth cable cut in Mideast

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