Re: sat-3 cut?

[Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>]

On 08/08/2009 18:09, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Not in a long time. My memory is that SAT-3 was supposed to be a nice
> cooperative effort funded by the nations themselves, rather than an
> outside investor. With cooperation, I'd have expected good peering.

Indeed, it is a co-operative affair owned by several of the incumbent 
telcos along the route, and one suspects that they engage in all of the 
sort of benevolent, community-focussed behaviour that you'd expect from 
incumbents.

On a more serious note, and peering / interconnection arrangements aside, 
the cable fault indicates a critical lack of resilience on the west coast 
of africa.

Nick