[kictanet] Fibre Cut disrupts 70% Internet in India & Egypt

[Kai Wulff]

This is why I always said: We need 2 systems with different routes!

Kai
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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 09:35
Subject: [kictanet] Fibre Cut disrupts 70% Internet in India & Egypt


>
> As we prepare to light up TEAMS we had better be thinking about redundancy 
> ......
>
> Brian
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> Cut Fiber: Internet Services in India and Egypt Disrupted
>
> January 30th, 2008
> Via: Reuters:
> A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted 
> Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday.
> Egypt’s Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the 
> Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70 percent of the country’s Internet 
> network.
> The ministry said in a statement it was not known how the cable was cut 
> but that services would probably take several days to return to normal.
> India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet 
> service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage.
> “There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt 
> which has impacted internet connectivity in India,” Videsh Sanchar Nigam 
> Ltd (VSNL), an internet service provider, said in a statement.
> VSNL said its service had been “largely restored” by diverting to another 
> cable.
> India said it had lost more than half of its capacity.
> “There has been a 50 to 60 percent cut in bandwidth,” Rajesh Chharia, 
> president of the Internet Service Providers’ Association of India, told 
> Reuters.
> He told the Headlines Today news channel that a “degraded” service would 
> be activated by Wednesday night, but full restoration will take 10 to 15 
> days.
> Chharia said companies, including some of India’s many outsourcing 
> businesses, had been affected.
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