Within the last year there have been 16 so-called fiber cuts in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to the F.B.I., someone or some group has been going through manholes to sever fiber optic cables that supply telecommunications to large sections of the region which is home to technology companies, academic institutions and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, overseer of the nation’s nuclear weapons.
DatacenterDynamics: A landlocked nation wedged between India and China, Nepal has long sought to remain independent and keep on good terms with the two economic and military giants, constantly trying to balance the interests of each nation.
Yeah, really seems like they jumped on the chance to do it after Nepalese-Indian relations began to sour
Definitely as it strengthen the ties up between China and Nepal on the other end it will somewhat affect relationship between India and Nepal too.
Yeah, this means they can't have the same issues as they had with oil when they were fully reliant on India for delivery. However, it also means increasing power and control by China...
Superloop has raised AU$7.4 million to bring its total to AU$49.3 million to construct a network connecting datacentres, enterprise buildings, and subsea cables in Hong Kong.
The information age demands fat pipes. But making fat pipes is not always as easy as it sounds. Consider our current generation of fiber optic communications. Compared to microwave systems, where every symbol communicates something like one or two bytes of data, most current optical systems are limited to one to four bits per symbol.
