Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anyone in the know ? I can't find any published reports, but multiple internal reports of massive congestions from South Asian region to the US, and failure alarms. Given that Typhoon Morakot made landfall near Taiwan yesterday, this could impact APC

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

Hi Gaurab, How are you? Thank you for your help to install I-root. Actually I don't hear any damage info about submarine cable in Taiwan, and it seems fine from Taiwan to Internet now. cheers, Ethern = Ethern Lin Network Division Computing Center, ACADEMIA SINICA Ph

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

I'm seeing high latency and some packet loss via multiple providers from the US to Singapore, matching what we saw a few days ago although not as bad (ie, packet loss is only about 5%, down from the 40% we were seeing a few days ago). At that time the cause was a cable fault somewhere in/near Japa

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Howard wrote: > At that time the cause was a cable fault somewhere in/near Japan, but at > this stage I'm not sure if this is the same problem or not. > Now confirmed that APCN2, C2C and EAC are cut. also unconfirmed reports of SMW2 and SWM3 a

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

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 : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Scott Howard wrote: > >> At that time the cause was a cable fault somewhere in/ne

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

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 = Ethern Lin Network Division Computing Center, ACADEMIA SINICA Phone: +886

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

Do typhoons/hurricanes tend to damage cables in shallow water near the landing sites, tear up the landing sites themselves, or do damage in deeper water somehow? On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ethern M., Lin wrote: > Update: > > The submarine cable down first is EAC since 8/9. FNAL down > tod

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

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. 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

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

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=&pNewsID=200908120038&pType1=ED&pType0=xEMST&pType

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

> 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. Its 2006/12/26, not 2005. cheers, Ethern > > Announced by CHT, Chunghwa telecom: > > http://english.cna.com.tw/ReadNews/Detail.aspx?pSear

Re: Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

Some further press on it : http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136558/Update_Asian_undersea_cable_disruption_slows_Internet_access http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,62056838,00.htm In the past hour we've seen latency and packet loss return to almost normal (we were seeing