In the winter of 2000, Telstra, Australia's biggest Internet service provider had a cable cut of its own on Nov. 19, when its Internet backbone cable, sitting in less than 100 feet of seawater about 40 miles off Singapore, was damaged by unknown causes.
Telstra at that time relied on the cable, known as SEA-ME-WE 3 (for Southeast Asia, Middle East and Western Europe) for more than 60 percent of its Internet transmission capacity.
About 23,600 miles long, the cable connected 33 countries, touching places as diverse as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Djibouti, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Portugal, France and the U.K.
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