Both cable systems (TEAMs and EASSy) enter the same landing station, thus at some point they run in the same undersea "channel" - which is where the ship anchor accident occured. Think of it in the same way as different aircraft using the same runway to land. Regards, Brian On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:38 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com> wrote:
Ok; found it; but I found this part quite odd:
The accident damaged two of East Africa's major fiber optic cable systems: The East African Marine Systems (TEAMs) and the East Africa Submarine Cable System(EASSy)
Question is: Why on earth would they put two separate cables on the same spot ? Or did the achor drag itself over several meters to cut both ???
Some wisdoms escape me.. (somebody missed Redundancy 101 - Location redundancy )
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