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Richter 7.1 earthquake disrupts international links

Dec 27, 2006 10:00

Since the wee hours of December 27, my 1.5Mbps broadband has been a snarling 42kbps connecting Palo Alto via dslreport.com.

I placed a phone call to my contact at the ISP and was told that a Richter 7.1 earthquake in Taiwan had caused a major cable problem at APCN2 S7 (Asia Pacific Cable Network 2, Zone S7) between Shantou-Tanshui at 00:07 hours today. From my vantage point, it resulted in congested international links to Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.

According to Reuters AlertNet UK, a total of six submarine cables were affected by the earthquake. See breaking news on Google.

Total capacity lost due to the APCN2 S7 problem was estimated at around 7Gbps.

The net result is that, on the end-user side like you and I, we will experience high latency and packets lost when you try to upload to/download from the affected destinations.

Sample latency to the US was 922ms, Hong Kong 45ms, Japan 542ms, Taiwan 304ms, and Korea 1,000ms.

I wonder if we have a workable redundancy loop for international links, and if Singapore is equally affected like we are?

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About Jeff Ooi

Jeff Ooi is an Internet and e-Business consultant based in Kuala Lumpur who's spent the last four years blogging internationally on the tech scene, on anything and nothing. Which doesn't really explain why most of his own technology is about three years out of date. He doesn't even own a PDA after his Palm V crashed. He's on 3G, though... Lemak Lemang refers to coconut-flavored sticky rice stuffed in a bamboo container.