North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cap'n Bubba the marine backhoe driver - SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4, FLAG cut
Apology in advance for the additional followup; The other 'exception' to add to my previous post is Hibernia terrestrial+marine via Halifax to Greenland Conect interconnected with either Danice or Farice via Iceland. Hibernia Ireland+London would be lower latency for US route, with the second potential Hibernia route being second lowest alternate. Best, -M< On 12/27/08, virendra rode <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Martin Hannigan wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Dave Farber's IP list. >>> >>>> From: France Telecom / Press <[email protected]> >>>> To: France Telecom / Press <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Three undersea cables cut: traffic greatly disturbed between >>>> Europe and Asia/Near East zone >>>> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:09:03 +0100 (CET) >>>> X-Concentric-MX-Info: s=0AKNHR84D300:1 ts=0 td=53 dt=0 tro=1 tra=2 >>>> trb=1 sro=1 sra=2 ic=0 >>>> X-Concentric-DKIM: SigStatus="No signature", PolSusp="No", >>>> PolTest="No", Policy="none", Handling="none" >>>> X-Virus-Status: No >>>> >>>> If you can't read this email, please go to : >>>> http://www.orange.com/en_EN/press/press_releases/cp081219en.html >>>> Paris, December 19, 2008 >>>> Three undersea cables cut: traffic greatly disturbed between Europe and >>>> Asia/Near East zone >>>> >>>> 3 cables cut this morning (Sea Me We3 partly + Sea Me We4 + FLAG) >>>> France Telecom Marine cable ship about to depart >>>> >>>> France Telecom observed today that 3 major underwater cables were cut: >>>> ?Sea Me We 4? at 7:28am, ?Sea Me We3? at 7:33am and FLAG at 8:06am. >>>> The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between >>>> Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain >>>> unclear. >>>> >>>> Most of the B to B traffic between Europe and Asia is rerouted through >>>> the USA. >>>> Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected, but traffic >>>> from Europe to the Near East and Asia is interrupted to a greater or >>>> lesser extent (see country list below). >>>> Part of the internet traffic towards R?union is affected as well as 50% >>>> towards Jordan. >>>> A first appraisal at 7:44 am UTC gave an estimate of the following >>>> impact on the voice traffic (in percentage of out of service capacity): >>>> - Saudi Arabia: 55% out of service >>>> - Djibouti: 71% out of service >>>> - Egypt: 52% out of service >>>> - United Arab Emirates: 68% out of service >>>> - India: 82% out of service >>>> - Lebanon: 16% out of service >>>> - Malaysia: 42% out of service >>>> - Maldives: 100% out of service >>>> - Pakistan: 51% out of service >>>> - Qatar: 73% out of service >>>> - Syria: 36% out of service >>>> - Taiwan: 39% out of service >>>> - Yemen: 38% out of service >>>> - Zambia: 62% out of service >>>> >> >> >> And it looks like they are going back to square one on SMW4. >> >> AMMAN - Internet users in the Kingdom and elsewhere in the region are >> expected to continue experiencing slower services as repair teams >> continue their attempts to fix cut cables in the Mediterranean. >> >> Raslan Diranieh, chief financial officer of the Jordan Telecom Group >> (JTG), said that a few hours after SMW-4 Internet cable which links >> the Kingdom to the International Internet Network was fixed, it >> experienced another cut on Saturday. > - ---------------------------- > I wonder how many km apart smw4 & smw3 are of eachother as my > understanding is they follow same path. > > My understanding is repairing is extremely tedious process by which > robot has to scour the seabed and dig out the broken cable and solder > individual fiber and check for connectivity not that this is an excuse > for another cut. > > > regards, > /virendra > > >> >> >> http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=13079 >> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFJVupFpbZvCIJx1bcRApz7AJ9r5ZzXOUZ7fa30R+hDqrMfzS9hPQCeMYwN > DZglqvleGT3gkaDc1v6DDsw= > =L8xJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Martin Hannigan [email protected] p: +16178216079
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