[116639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ethern M., Lin)
Wed Aug 12 10:55:01 2009
In-Reply-To: <5b6f80200908120714l686392b4w8a4de4f2fb41cc42@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Ethern M., Lin" <ethern@ascc.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:54:12 +0800
To: Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
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Ethern Lin <ethern at ascc.net>
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Ken Gilmour<ken.gilmour@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just chatted to my contact in SG (over Instant Messenger) who said
> they barely even noticed a problem. The provider is Star Hub.
>
> 2009/8/12 Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <gaurab@lahai.com>:
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>> Scott Howard wrote:
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>>> At that time the cause was a cable fault somewhere in/near Japan, but a=
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>>> this stage I'm not sure if this is the same problem or not.
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>> Now confirmed that APCN2, C2C and EAC are cut. also unconfirmed reports
>> of SMW2 and SWM3 are out. =C2=A0FLAG and TGN seems to be not had any iss=
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>> so far.
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>> 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
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:South_China_Sea.jpg
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>> Circuits from Japan to SG, TH, PH are down, but not to HK. My
>> perspective, yours may vary.
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>> - -gaurab
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