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Southeast Asian undersea cable suffers major damage
On Wednesday a piece of the Asia-Pacific Cable Network2 (APCN2) undersea optical cable that provides connections between China and Taiwan was damaged. As a result, Internet traffic had to be rerouted onto other undersea cables, and Internet access users in Southeast Asia saw slower connections. While the damage shut down service, customers were soon rerouted to other cables. Owned by a consortium of 26 service providers, the ACPCN2 cable system links Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong, Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan.
Although the source of the disruption is unknown, a network alarm revealed that the cause was "single point of failure" such as a technical failure or a cable cut. This interruption follows a string of recent incidents. Previously, a network disruption occurred on APCN2 Segment 7 between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the other APCN2 Segment 1 that connects Singapore and Malaysia. However, sources close to the situation said that these disruptions had minimal impact.
For more:
- PC World has this article
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Comments
Posted by Anonymous | August 18, 2009 - 6:15am
Last time this happened December of 2006. It was not repaired fully until middle of about 02/15/07.
So expect up to 2 months.
I as well depend on yahoo email. its my connection to my family and everything back home.
Posted by Anonymous | August 18, 2009 - 5:25am
I depend on Yahoo for email and other services, and since Monday August 17 service has been very slow or nothing at all.
Posted by Overhear | August 17, 2009 - 7:51pm
Well i don't think the earthquake in Taiwan/Japan yesterday helped matters much. We cannot reach many sites back in the USA now. My services within my interest (gaming) is highly effected @ 2:30 PM Beijing Time on Monday August 17, 2009. Good ol technology not withstanding mother nature.
Posted by Devendar | August 17, 2009 - 7:42am
ok but wanted to know till when the problem will be solved
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