http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/31/AR2008013101465.html
Internet in India slowed by Middle East outage
Cut cables in the Mediterranean Sea have slowed Internet traffic from India to the U.S. and the UK.
John Ribeiro
PC World
Thursday, January 31, 2008; 10:19 AM
Internet traffic from India to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. has slowed down, as Internet service providers (ISPs) have started diverting traffic from Middle Eastern links to slower links through the Asia-Pacific region, according to the head of an ISP association in India.
Two underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea, including one from Flag Telecom, owned by India’s Reliance Communications, and another from the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) consortium, were damaged Wednesday for reasons as yet unclear.
“These links carry most of India’s premium traffic to the Atlantic region, resulting in a disruption of about 50 to 60 percent of the bandwidth from India on Wednesday when the cables were first damaged,” said Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers’ Association of India (ISPAI), in an interview Thursday.
Most of the traffic has now been routed through submarine cable links in the Asia-Pacific but traffic to the east coast of the U.S. and the U.K. will be slow, because of the longer latency involved by these diversions, Chharia said.
Repairs to the Flag Telecom cable would take at least 10 to 15 days, which would mean that Indian companies, including outsourcing companies, will be affected for this period, Chharia said. A Reliance spokesman could not immediately provide an update on the status of the repairs, and other measures taken by Flag Telecom.
India’s second largest outsourcer, Infosys Technologies, said that its Internet service had not been affected by the outage in the Middle East. The company uses a lot of redundant links from a variety of service providers, a spokeswoman said...
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India didn’t pay their cable bill.
Strange...
You might be right, three makes it sound more deliberate, whether bad guys or good guys.
Things that make you say HMMMMMMMMMM.......PING!!
Somebody forgot to pay their cable bill. Man, those cable TV companies!
Let's jsut say that almost everyone in certain sensitive regions thinks so.
How’s the democratic underground going to info from their terrorist friends?
Sounds like the muzzies are trying to make sure that the people don’t have access to any thoughts other than those forced on them by their religious leaders.
As accidential as two planes flying into the middle of the two WTC towers.
Cheap & Cheerful ISP traffic and some voice service will be degraded but most corporate traffic has redundant capacity. It will be affected marginally.
SMW3 is still operating - it was the main cable between S and SE Asia until SMW4 was placed in service a couple of years ago. The “A Team” carriers - ATT, BT, Singtel, NTT, etc.- have capacity on multiple cables just to cope with instances like this.
The cables are especially vulnerable in areas where they approach shore - shallow water combined with lots of boat traffic are a bad mix.
While these cuts are newsworthy they are minor in comparison to the earthquake caused outage in Dec. 2006 off the east coast of China.
He did it!
Go Aquaman Go!
Could just be incompetence. Sort of like when the cable guy came to repair the line that runs under my lawn and ended up severing my phone service. lol
Sounds very suspicious to me.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.” Ian Fleming