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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGoogle goes offline after fibre cables cut
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420Severed fibre optic cables disrupted internet access in parts of eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey on Thursday.
The issue, which lasted for about two hours, was caused by multiple fibre cables being physically cut at the same time, a highly unusual thing to happen.
Google said its services were among those unavailable in the region for about 30 minutes.
The company told internet service providers to connect to its other servers to "route around the problem".
In a statement, the company blamed "multiple simultaneous fibre cuts", which are very rare.
BBC Monitoring confirmed that internet access in Bulgaria, Iran and Turkey had been disrupted for about two hours on Thursday morning.
Sadjad Bonabi, a director at Iran's Communications Infrastructure Company, said two cuts happened at once, one between Iran and Bucharest and the other on a line to Munich.
This disrupted traffic on one of the major fibre cables in the region. But Mr Bonabi said traffic had been routed on to "healthy" connections in western and southern Iran.
No explanation for the cut cables has been offered.
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I'm going to cite Nance's Law on this one.
"multiple simultaneous fibre cuts"
Coincidences take a lot of planning!
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Boxerfan
Dec 2019
OP
Hmmm...a Russian ship was spotted off the South Eastern coast of the US, cruising ...
SWBTATTReg
Dec 2019
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irisblue
(33,021 posts)1. Hmmm🤔🤔🤔🤔
SWBTATTReg
(22,158 posts)3. Hmmm...a Russian ship was spotted off the South Eastern coast of the US, cruising ...
erratically. Hmmmm...trying to cut more fiber cables?
OAITW r.2.0
(24,581 posts)4. Yeah, this doesn't sound like sabotauge, at all.
I also picked up on the same sentence-
"company blamed "multiple simultaneous fibre cuts", which are very rare."
I would think it is very rare...like never.
getagrip_already
(14,834 posts)5. Hey, it takes time to tap into fibre circuits...
Give them a chance to put the connectors on...