Could, but highly unlikely. There is far too much middle mile\long-haul
competition and too many independent ISPs for that to happen soon.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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On 1/29/2011 9:51 AM, St. Louis Broadband wrote:
>and government office that*/relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs/*for
their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world
Sounds like what the U.S. could morph into...
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:31 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: Eqypt Has Been Disconnected from the Internet
They may be talking about the European-Asian fiber-optic routes that go
through Egypt..
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Faisal Imtiaz
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 7:21 AM
To: [email protected] ; WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: Eqypt Has Been Disconnected from the Internet
I am sorry ....but that is a cheap shot....
I have never received any spam originating from Egypt... Tons of spam
from
here in the US though.
:)
Faisal
On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:03 AM, "Stuart Pierce" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well maybe some spam will stop, a little at least.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Jack Unger <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:06:22 -0800
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>> Sorry for the OT post. I thought some might be interested.
>>
>>
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>> Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action
>> unprecedented in
>> Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered
service
>> providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet.
>> Critical
>> European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected
>> for now.
>> But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe,
>> website,
>> school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four
>> Egyptian ISPs
>> for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the
>> world. Link
>> Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their
>> customers and
>> partners are, for the moment, off the air.
>>
>> At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually
>> simultaneous
>> withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global
>> routing
>> table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn,
leaving
>> no
>> valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange
>> Internet
>> traffic with Egypt's service providers. Virtually all of Egypt's
Internet
>> addresses are now unreachable, worldwide.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc.
>> Author (2003) - "Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks"
>> Serving the WISP, Networking and Telecom Communities since 1993
>> www.ask-wi.com 818-227-4220 [email protected]
>>
>>
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