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Ask HN: How do disruptions to submarine Internet cables affect the internet?
5 points by dalek2point3 on Aug 10, 2014 | hide | past | favorite
I've been reading recently about major disruptions to the submarine internet cables, mostly affecting parts of Asia [0] [1]. Have some of you working at large companies seen the impacts of this on your engagement numbers? There's lots [2] about how such disruptions affect speed, but no so much about how it might affect things we rely on the internet for. I'm hoping to write this up for a class essay or as a short paper, so any inputs would be helping an academic cause!

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/28/damaged-undersea-cable-internet-disruption [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption [2] http://www.renesys.com/2014/03/beware-the-ides-of-march/




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