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

["Ethern M., Lin" <ethern () ascc net>]

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

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Ken Gilmour<ken.gilmour () gmail com> wrote:
> 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 <gaurab () lahai com>:
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> > Scott Howard wrote:
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> > > 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 are out.  FLAG and TGN seems to be not had any issues
> > so far.
> >
> > It seems at this point, the fault is more on the South China Sea and the
> > alarms I got seem to confirm that. For the geography, see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:South_China_Sea.jpg
> >
> > Circuits from Japan to SG, TH, PH are down, but not to HK. My
> > perspective, yours may vary.
> >
> > - -gaurab
> >
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