Re: Undersea cable damages in the Atlantic?

[Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com>]

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


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