Anyone in the know ?
I can't find any published reports, but multiple internal reports of
massive congestions from South Asian region to the US, and failure alarms.
Given that Typhoon Morakot made landfall near Taiwan yesterday, this
could impact APCN2, C2C, EAC, SMW3 amongst others.
any updates are appreciated.
- -gaurab
Hi Gaurab,
How are you? Thank you for your help to install I-root.
Actually I don't hear any damage info about submarine cable in Taiwan,
and it seems fine from Taiwan to Internet now.
cheers,
Ethern
I'm seeing high latency and some packet loss via multiple providers from the
US to Singapore, matching what we saw a few days ago although not as bad
(ie, packet loss is only about 5%, down from the 40% we were seeing a few
days ago).
At that time the cause was a cable fault somewhere in/near Japan, but at
this stage I'm not sure if this is the same problem or not.
Scott.
Scott Howard wrote:
At that time the cause was a cable fault somewhere in/near Japan, but at
this stage I'm not sure if this is the same problem or not.
Now confirmed that APCN2, C2C and EAC are cut. also unconfirmed reports
of SMW2 and SWM3 are out. FLAG and TGN seems to be not had any issues
so far.
It seems at this point, the fault is more on the South China Sea and the
alarms I got seem to confirm that. For the geography, see
Circuits from Japan to SG, TH, PH are down, but not to HK. My
perspective, yours may vary.
- -gaurab
I just chatted to my contact in SG (over Instant Messenger) who said
they barely even noticed a problem. The provider is Star Hub.
Update:
The submarine cable down first is EAC since 8/9. FNAL down
today(8/12). The cause might be typhone Morakot. Hongkong seems the
most critical impact by these cable down.
cheers,
Ethern
Do typhoons/hurricanes tend to damage cables in shallow water near the
landing sites, tear up the landing sites themselves, or do damage in deeper
water somehow?
Actually I can't tell you more about this. I am just have this info
mention.<grin>
Its just happened that one cable system down on 8/9, the exact day of
typhoon attacked Taiwan quite badly.
Maybe someone can share more detailed info and we can wait for more info later.
cheers,
Ethern
Latest news:
The typhoon Morakot cause rare debris flow under sea and damage many
cable systems at southern Taiwan more than earthquake at 2005/12/25.
Announced by CHT, Chunghwa telecom:
cheers,
Ethern
Latest news:
The typhoon Morakot cause rare debris flow under sea and damage many
cable systems at southern Taiwan more than earthquake at 2005/12/25.
Its 2006/12/26, not 2005.
cheers,
Ethern
Some further press on it :
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136558/Update_Asian_undersea_cable_disruption_slows_Internet_access
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,62056838,00.htm
In the past hour we've seen latency and packet loss return to almost normal
(we were seeing ~40% loss for a few hours) across multiple providers, so I'm
guessing something has been done to re-route traffic.
Scott.