[Terretta]

What kind of mechanism for USA-based email service causes email delays for 50% of Gmail users due to an undersea cable?

Not disputing, just curious about cause and effect here, and Gmail architecture.

[thrownaway2424]

http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ind...

[sp332]

If one route is disrupted, traffic might be re-routed and overwhelm another route?

[throwit1979]

Wild guess: google routes non-latency-critical US traffic like SMTP outside the US so the NSA's beam splitters can more easily claim intercepted domestic data as "international".