[116644] 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 11:45:22 2009
In-Reply-To: <7db2dcf90908120759m176238f4s365c11da23c4077c@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Ethern M., Lin" <ethern@ascc.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:44:41 +0800
To: Dorn Hetzel <dhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Actually I can't tell you more about this. I am just have this info
from my IPLC provider, and its just a gossip, not formal one as I
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 la=
ter.
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 deep=
er
> water somehow?
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ethern M., Lin <ethern@ascc.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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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