roeber@cithe2.cithep.caltech.edu (Frederick Roeber) (11/11/90)
It has been mentioned that recently much transatlantic computer traffic has been routed via satellite because of a broken undersea cable. I just called Washington from Switzerland and got a `half-duplex' connection (pardon the computer term; I mean when one person was speaking, the other direction was cut off.) From the delay, it was clearly a satellite link. However, I also traced the Internet link between Geneva and Pasadena, and the long delay I've seen recently (that I figured was the transatlantic hop) has disappeared! Does anybody know what's going on? Frederick G. M. Roeber | e-mail: roeber@caltech.edu or roeber@vxcern.cern.ch r-mail: CERN/SL-CO, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland | telephone: +41 22 767 5373 [Moderator's Note: The message we got was that one of the repeaters in the cable was out. A ship was on location to work on it. A private message sent to me Saturday night said the repairs are apparently finished and the cable is back in service. PAT]