[governance] The BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet”

[Diego Rafael Canabarro]

+1

as if all on the Internet was merely related to the "tubes". Seems that
policy makers are not even reading the basics about the NSA schemes.


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> This is one of several transcontinental undersea cables. And no guarantee
> against spying or interception. Chalk this down to marketing hype by a
> telco salesman that doesn't understand routing.
>
> --srs (iPad)
>
> On 20-Sep-2013, at 2:49, Diego Rafael Canabarro <diegocanabarro at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> *
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-brics-independent-internet-in-defiance-of-the-us-centric-internet/5350272
> *
>
> *The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announces publicly the creation
> of a world internet system INDEPENDENT from US and Britain ( the
> “US-centric internet”).*
>
> *Not many understand that, while the immediate trigger for the decision
> (coupled with the cancellation of a summit with the US president) was the
> revelations on NSA spying, the reason why Rousseff can take such a historic
> step is that the alternative infrastructure: The BRICS cable from Vladivostock,
> Russia  to Shantou, China to Chennai, India  to Cape Town, South Africa  to
> Fortaleza, Brazil,  is being built and it’s, actually, in its final phase
> of implementation.*
>
> *No amount of provocation and attempted “Springs” destabilizations and
> Color Revolution in the Middle East, Russia or Brazil can stop this
> process.  The huge submerged part of the BRICS plan is not yet known by the
> broader public.
> *
>
> *Nonetheless it is very real and extremely effective. So real that
> international investors are now jumping with both feet on this
> unprecedented real economy opportunity. The change… has already happened.*
>
> Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over
> Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will
> be a potentially dangerous first step toward politically fracturing a
> global network built with minimal interference by governments.
>
> President Dilma Rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater
> Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the
> U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into
> the state-owned Petrobras oil company’s network and spied on Brazilians who
> entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and
> Google.
>
> ..
>
> *BRICS Cable!*
>
> http://www.bricscable.com/(see video)
> [image: netw_geo]
> BRICS Cable… a 34 000 km, 2 fibre pair, 12.8 Tbit/s capacity, fibre optic
> cable system
>
>     - For any *global investor*, there is *no crisis* – there is *plenty
>          of growth. It’s just not in the old world*
>          - BRICS is ~*45% of the world’s population* and ~*25% of the
>          world’s GDP*
>          - *BRICS* together create an economy the size of* Italy every
>          year*… that’s the 8th largest economy in the world
>          - The *BRICS* presents *profound opportunities* in *global
>          geopolitics and commerce*
>
>
>    - Links Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil – the BRICS
>    economies – and the United States.
>    - Interconnect with regional and other continental cable systems in
>    Asia, Africa and South America for improved global coverage
>    - Immediate access to 21 African countries and give those African
>    countries access to the BRICS economies.
>    - Projected ready for service date is mid to second half of 2015.
>
>
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