{"id":6648,"date":"2012-09-22T01:21:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T06:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2012-09-22T01:21:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T06:21:02","slug":"avoiding-egypt-where-cables-fear-to-dredge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6648","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Egypt: Where Cables Fear to Dredge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"showvisitedlinks\">New cables are finding other ways to connect Europe and the Middle East. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epegcable.com\/\" target=\"new\">Europe-Persia Express Gateway (EPEG)<\/a>, a terrestrial cable that routes from Frankfurt to Oman via Ukraine and Iran, is built &#8220;away from the known trouble areas,&#8221; says Gavin Tait, director of Asia network planning for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/complink_redirect.asp?vl_id=12521\" target=\"new\">Cable &amp; Wireless Worldwide plc<\/a> (London: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/quote.asp?Account=lightreading&amp;Page=QUOTE&amp;Ticker=CW\">CW<\/a>), now part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/complink_redirect.asp?vl_id=6082\" target=\"new\">Vodafone Group plc<\/a> (NYSE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/quote.asp?Account=lightreading&amp;Page=QUOTE&amp;Ticker=VOD\">VOD<\/a>). &#8220;Obviously it doesn&#8217;t go anywhere near the Red Sea,&#8221; he adds. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=222081\" target=\"new\">Euronews: Vodafone Gets the Nod on C&amp;WW<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=223386\" target=\"new\">Vodafone Appoints C&amp;WW Execs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=218842\" target=\"new\">ancotel Provides EPEG Connection Point<\/a>.) <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=225138&amp;\">Light Reading Asia &#8211; Optical Networking &#8211; Avoiding Egypt: Where Cables Fear to Dredge &#8211; Telecom News Analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"showvisitedlinks\">Meanwhile, Singapore&#8217;s popularity as a network destination is making it hard to land cables there, says Genaro Sanchez, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/complink_redirect.asp?vl_id=4265\" target=\"new\">Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT)<\/a> vice-president of network planning and engineering. &#8220;The corridor in Singapore is narrow, it&#8217;s getting crowded, [and] it&#8217;s getting more difficult to work with cables.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New cables are finding other ways to connect Europe and the Middle East. The Europe-Persia Express Gateway (EPEG), a terrestrial cable that routes from Frankfurt to Oman via Ukraine and Iran, is built &#8220;away from the known trouble areas,&#8221; says &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[525,196,588],"class_list":["post-6648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-market-trends","tag-optical-networks","tag-submariners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6649,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6648\/revisions\/6649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}