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Posted on 01-31-08 6:29 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Damn I thought I could fix my slow internet. But this is not for me. Tar chudiyo re haaaaa.

Is your internet slow?

Is your internet slow? Do you have difficulty to have communication with Asia? Do you expected something from India or you are trying to get India network? I faced the same problem. I was trying to get India network and never worked out. I though that was our network problem.
Don't worry its not your network problem. Undersea cable has been cut in Egypt and France by ship. One cable was damaged near Alexandria, Egypt and the other in the waters off Marseille in France. The two cables, which are separately managed and operated, were damaged within hours of each other. Damage to undersea cables, while rare , can result from movement of geologic faults or possibly frm the dragging anchor of a ship. This cut was done by ship. In 2006, nine cubmarine cables were cut between Taiwan and Philipinnes due to earthwake.
In Egypt, only 40% of internet is available. But east Asian countries including India too is affected by this cable cut. Infact more than 95 percent of transoceanic telecoms and data traffic are carried by submarine cables, and the rest by satellite. A single pair of optical fiber strands can now carry digitized information equivalent to 150 million simultaneous phone calls.

 
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Cut in Internet cables off Egypt causes outages across Mideast to India
By The Associated Press
Tags: india, internet middle east 

Fallout spread Thursday from a cut in two undersea Internet cables off Egypt's coast, disrupting half of India's bandwidth and causing widespread outages across the Middle East.

Israel was unaffected by the outages because its Internet traffic is connected to Europe through a different undersea cable. Lebanon and Iraq were also operating normally, while users in India, Pakistan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain were affected. English-language Saudi newspaper Arab News said Saudi Telecom had lost more than 50 percent of its international online connectivity due to the problem.

Outages across India could have serious repercussions worldwide as many U.S. companies outsource back-office operations including customer service call centers there. President of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, Rajesh Chharia, said companies that serve the East Coast of the United States and Britain had been badly hit.
"The companies that serve the (U.S.) East coast and the UK are worst affected. The delay is very bad in some cases," Chharia told The Associated Press. "They have to arrange backup plans or they have to accept the poor quality for the time being until the fiber is restored," he said.

Chharia added that some companies were rerouting their service via the Pacific, bypassing the disrupted cables.

Officials said it could take a week or more to fix the cables, in part because of bad weather. Officials in several countries were scrambling to reroute traffic to satellites and to other cables through Asia.

The outage raised questions about the system's vulnerability, with one Gulf analyst calling the incident a 'wake-up call'.

Large-scale Internet disruptions are rare but not unknown. East Asia suffered nearly two months of outages and slow service after an earthquake damaged undersea cables near Taiwan in December 2006. Bad weather was also a major factor in delaying the repair of cables in the area.

At the time of writing, governments in the region had not reported serious disturbances to normal functioning, as backup satellite systems were implemented. However, the outages had caused slowdown in traffic on Dubai's stock exchange Wednesday.

An Egyptian Communications Ministry official cautioned Thursday that workers won't know for sure what caused the cuts in the cables until they are able to get repair ships and divers to the area, off the northern coast of Egypt.

TeleGeography, a U.S. research group that tracks submarine cables around the world, said the Mediterranean undersea cable cuts reduced the amount of available capacity on the route from Mideast to Europe by 75 percent, and that until service was restored, many providers in Egypt and the Middle East would have to reroute their traffic around the globe, to Southeast Asia and across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

Alan Mauldin, research chief at the Washington-based TeleGeography, said similar outages in the future could be averted by new cable construction, even though multiple cables could not guarantee against outages.

Mustafa Alani, head of security and terrorism department at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center, said the outage should be a wake-up call for governments and professionals to divert more resources to protect vital infrastructure.

"This shows how easy it would be to attack vital networks, such as Internet, mobile phones," he said alluding to the possibility of terrorsit interference in online banking and government services.

"When it comes to great technology, it's not about building it, it's how to protect it," he added.

An official at the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, Gerald David, said trading Thursday morning resumed normally following the Wednesday slowdown after which backup systems kicked in. A Mercantile spokesman said the exchange partnered with Nymex network engineering and rerouted all network traffic from Dubai trading floor to two unaffected circuits.


 


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