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From: Kauto.Huopio@lut.fi (Kauto Huopio OH5LFM)
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Subject: Re: Has TAT-8 Been Damaged?
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Date: 7 Nov 90 03:10:22 GMT
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> In another newsgroup someone wrote about a delay in the news and
> someone else explained that this was because the TAT-8 had broken and

> [Moderator's Note: Quite honestly, I had not heard about it. Had there
> been something mentioned, I'd have put the item to the front of the
> queue immediatly. Has anyone else heard anything on this?  PAT]

If I have understood it right, there was a repeater problem at the
stateside end of TAT-8. The Internet connections to Europe were indeed
routed to sateillite links. I haven't read about any service return to
TAT-8 connection. Because there hasn't been any great fuss about the
failure, maybe just one fibre repeater has broken and only data
traffic has been in it?


                   Kauto Huopio (huopio@kannel.lut.fi)
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