I have been based in the UAE for the last nine years and we have had cables cut in Egypt four or five times over that period impacting performance to varying degrees.
From: uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk [mailto:uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] On Behalf Of Will Hargrave Sent: 02 April 2013 00:24 To: Matthew Melbourne; 'Neil J. McRae'; 'waynemerricks' Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Please Advise: UK - India Routing issues In Egypt a lot of these cables share the same infrastructure, even the same cable sheath. So shared fate is inevitable. Matthew Melbourne <m...@melbourne.org.uk> wrote: Not to mention the issues with SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW4) on 27th March. http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2013/03/28/seamew e-4-damage-hampers-internet-access-in-region/ Reports suggests EIG (Europe-India Gateway) and IMEWE (India-Middle-East-Western-Europe) were in 'maintenance mode'. Very fishy.. ;-) Cheers, Matt -----Original Message----- From: uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk [mailto:uknof-boun...@lists.uknof.org.uk] On Behalf Of Neil J. McRae Sent: 01 April 2013 17:25 To: waynemerricks Cc: uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk Subject: Re: [uknof] Please Advise: UK - India Routing issues As will says many cable issues - falcon and flag seems to be on for now but this was causing chaos last week. Sent from my iPhone On 1 Apr 2013, at 13:45, "waynemerricks" <waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com> wrote: Hi all, I apologise if this is the wrong place to ask but I was recommended reaching out to the UKNOF lists after not getting very far in other lists/forums. I work for a UK company with a satellite office in Northern India served by BSNL. About 4 weeks ago our inter office latency doubled to approximately 750ms. After some investigation on various UK ISPs I realised that they're all being routed via London -> New York -> Palo Alto -> Tokyo -> Singapore -> Chennai. The return route from India was still Mumbai -> London fairly directly as it always has been. Some time on Wednesday (27th) the route changed again. Now the UK is bouncing from London -> Egypt -> Mumbai. This is almost normal but I'm still averaging about 100ms higher latency than normal (I could get under 250ms on a good day but more usually it was about 300ms). At about the same time the return route from India changed completely (its now going Mumbai -> Chennai -> Singapore -> Tokyo -> Palo Alto -> New York -> London). I'm fairly convinced its a BSNL issue but they're doing the usual telco thing of "it must be your fault." Is there anything I can use to prove one way or the other where the fault lies? I have a handful of trace routes (attached) that didn't convince them, so where should I go next? Any advice even if its to tell me to try elsewhere would be much appreciated. Regards, Wayne <16.03-India (BSNL) - UK (BT).txt> <16.03-UK (BT) - India (BSNL).txt> <16.03-UK (TalkTalk) - India (BSNL).txt> <28.03-UK (BT) - India (BSNL).txt> <31.03-India (BSNL) - UK (BT).txt> -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
