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Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ethern M., Lin)
Wed Aug 12 12:07:06 2009
In-Reply-To: <8582c31a0908120844y46d45819jb3fc43aa69c63991@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Ethern M., Lin" <ethern@ascc.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:05:59 +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
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:
http://english.cna.com.tw/ReadNews/Detail.aspx?pSearchDate=3D&pNewsID=3D200=
908120038&pType1=3DED&pType0=3DxEMST&pTypeSel=3D0
cheers,
Ethern
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Ethern Lin <ethern at ascc.net>
Network Division
Computing Center, ACADEMIA SINICA
Phone: +886-2-2789-9953
Fax : +886-2-2783-6444
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Ethern M., Lin<ethern@ascc.net> wrote:
> 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 =
later.
>
> 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 dee=
per
>> 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>
>>> Network Division
>>> Computing Center, ACADEMIA SINICA
>>> Phone: +886-2-2789-9953
>>> Fax =C2=A0: +886-2-2783-6444
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