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Repair Fleet Converges on Quake-Severed Cables - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR

Publication Date: 05-JAN-07
Author:  Tom Sawyer
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Four big cable repair ships are converging on six submarine fiber optic cables damaged by an earthquake off Taiwan Dec. 26, trying to turn around the consequences of a “freak” seismic event that all but cut eastern Asia out of the Internet and sent a shiver through cyberspace as if someone had walked on its grave. Two ships were already at work ...

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