gCaptain - Latest Comments in How One Ship Crashed The Internet For 75 Million Peoplehttp://gcaptain.disqus.com/A blog about ships!enSun, 03 Feb 2008 15:15:35 -0000Re: How One Ship Crashed The Internet For 75 Million Peoplehttp://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/how-one-ship-crashed-the-internet/#comment-1347875With Hdyrographic Offices outsourcing chart production to India, this event worries me. While I write these lines, the majority of the worlds digital sea charts for ECDIS is digitized in Hyderabad under contract to NOAA, UKHO, and other European and Asian HOs. What happens next when also maintainance (updating) of charts is mostly out of India? Delayed notices to mariners?gertbueSun, 03 Feb 2008 15:15:35 -0000Re: How One Ship Crashed The Internet For 75 Million Peoplehttp://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/how-one-ship-crashed-the-internet/#comment-1347879I'm glad they found a workaround... even if it's slow but this must be hurting the local economy. I know that Google has a project underway to lay a cable from California west that will add redundancy to the systems coming over from Europe but I think the estimates are it will take a decade to finish.JohnSun, 03 Feb 2008 11:02:33 -0000Re: How One Ship Crashed The Internet For 75 Million Peoplehttp://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/how-one-ship-crashed-the-internet/#comment-1347877Last three days lam finding it difficult to browse and the speed is too low because of this cable damage. This is likely to continue like this for a week or more.OldSailorSun, 03 Feb 2008 05:15:37 -0000