An anonymous reader writes "A spate of broken cables has brought disruption for many of the world's web users in 2008 — and the Med seems to be at the center of the problems. For political reasons, the Sea is an internet bottleneck through which the majority of traffic between Europe and Asia is squeezed. That traffic must must run the gauntlet of earthquakes and heavy maritime traffic to reach its destination. Better and stronger cables are urgently needed to avoid a re-occurrence of the 2008 outages.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16394-why-the-mediterranean-is-the-achilles-heel-of-the-web.html"
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