Re: Undersea cable damages in the Atlantic?

[Christopher Munz-Michielin <christopher () ve7alb ca>]

Our Singapore routes currently go through France, heh.

Start: 2022-01-18T13:32:07-0500
HOST: bom-h01.int.controld.com    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 103.13.115.1               0.0%    10    0.5   2.1   0.3 15.5   4.7
  2.|-- 103.149.113.69             0.0%    10    2.1   2.0   1.9 2.1   0.1
  3.|-- 203.199.133.125            0.0%    10    7.0   4.6   3.2 10.7   2.4
  4.|-- 172.28.176.254             0.0%    10    4.0   3.5   3.2 4.0   0.2
  5.|-- ix-ae-1-100.tcore2.mlv-mu  0.0%    10    3.3   3.6   3.3 4.8   0.4
  6.|-- if-ae-16-2.tcore1.svw-sin 80.0%    10  180.1 180.1 180.1 
180.1   0.0
  7.|-- if-ae-31-6.tcore1.wyn-mar 10.0%    10  179.9 180.2 179.9 
181.2   0.4
  8.|-- if-ae-2-3.tcore2.wyn-mars 40.0%    10  179.7 180.2 179.5 
181.7   0.8
  9.|-- if-ae-7-2.tcore2.fnm-fran 10.0%    10  180.3 180.3 179.8 
181.2   0.5
 10.|-- if-ae-4-2.tcore1.fr0-fran  0.0%    10  179.7 179.8 179.7 
180.0   0.1
 11.|-- 195.219.50.202             0.0%    10  309.0 310.4 308.8 
315.9   2.9
 12.|-- HundredGE0-5-0-0.br03.sin  0.0%    10  306.8 307.2 305.4 
314.3   2.7
 13.|-- HundredGE0-5-0-0.br03.sin  0.0%    10  305.4 307.4 305.3 
313.7   2.6
 14.|-- metro.tenGigE0-6-0-20.10.  0.0%    10  309.1 308.4 305.9 
314.5   2.8
 15.|-- 37.120.220.219             0.0%    10  318.9 328.0 314.7 376.2  
18.6
 16.|-- 84.247.49.130              0.0%    10  325.9 324.7 318.9 
334.4   4.8
 17.|-- 84.247.49.100              0.0%    10  317.5 311.4 309.3 
318.0   3.4

On 2022-01-18 10:17 a.m., Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> Are you sure it was about poor routing to Singapore and not poor 
> routing to networks in EU?
>
> The reason I ask is that a majority of connectivity has been lost to 
> EU and EU > India is mostly via US > Singapore now.
> I see high latency on this route for that reason but so far haven't 
> seen packet loss or routing issues with Singapore.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:46 PM Christopher Munz-Michielin 
> <christopher () ve7alb ca> wrote:
>
>     For what it's worth we have a provider in India for an anycast
>     network
>     who gave us a similar answer when we ticketed them about poor
>     routing to
>     Singapore.
>
>     Chris
>
>     On 2022-01-18 9:08 a.m., Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
>     > We received the following email today from our upstream (in India):
>     >
>     >> Our transit traffic partners have reported multiple sub-sea cable
>     >> damages on the Atlantic route towards Europe and US east coast.
>     Users
>     >> might face additional latency and occasional packet loss
>     towards these
>     >> destinations.
>     >>
>     >> Our partners are working with relevant authorities and cable sea
>     >> companies for restoration and will take few days to address it. We
>     >> will inform as soon as this is resolved. Inconvenience caused is
>     >> highly regretted.
>     > I've read about cable cuts due to the Tonga volcanic eruption,
>     but the
>     > above as "multiple cable damages" is mentioned as in the
>     Atlantic. Does
>     > anyone know more about this? A news search for "cable cuts"
>     didn't bring
>     > up anything aside from the Tonga story.
>     >
>     >               Mukund
>
>
>
> --
> Anurag Bhatia
> anuragbhatia.com <https://anuragbhatia.com>