Cross your fingers that we continue to have Internet in the very near future.

Reports have emerged that three of the four cables that run along the Pacific ocean floor, and connect Asia to the United States, have somehow been severed.  Accoording to the Times Online, there are fall back plans when a cable breaks that traffic is routed to a second cable, and before January of this year, there had never been more than one cable broken at a time.

With three of the four cables broken, there are outages being reported in Egypt, and traffic is delayed between Asia and North America.  Due to these delays, strains are also being placed on the cellular networks as companies roll over to back up plans for communications needs.

Seeing as this is the second time in the span of a year there have been multiple line breaks, it sounds to me like it is time for more lines to be dropped across the oceans for even more redundancy.