-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Satish Alwani <assid@assid.com> wrote:
It seems VSNL/Tata amongst other network vendors in india seem to be facing a major network issue. A client of mine who has offices in various other locations confirmed his satellite offices uses airtel and they seem to be facing the same problem. The issue seems to be only with the international carrier.
Has anyone heard / can shed some light on this? It has been horribly slow with packet losses and latencies in the range of 800ms+ what used to normally be 280, and has been such for the past 8 odd hours that I am aware off.
Via: http://www.orange.com/en_EN/press/press_releases/cp081219en.html Three undersea cables cut: traffic greatly disturbed between Europe and Asia/Near East zone Paris, December 19, 2008 * 3 cables cut this morning (Sea Me We3 partly + Sea Me We4 + FLAG) * France Telecom Marine cable ship about to depart France Telecom observed today that 3 major underwater cables were cut: "Sea Me We 4" at 7:28am, "Sea Me We3" at 7:33am and FLAG at 8:06am. The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain unclear. Most of the B to B traffic between Europe and Asia is rerouted through the USA. Traffic from Europe to Algeria and Tunisia is not affected, but traffic from Europe to the Near East and Asia is interrupted to a greater or lesser extent (see country list below). Part of the internet traffic towards Réunion is affected as well as 50% towards Jordan. A first appraisal at 7:44 am UTC gave an estimate of the following impact on the voice traffic (in percentage of out of service capacity): - - Saudi Arabia: 55% out of service - - Djibouti: 71% out of service - - Egypt: 52% out of service - - United Arab Emirates: 68% out of service - - India: 82% out of service - - Lebanon: 16% out of service - - Malaysia: 42% out of service - - Maldives: 100% out of service - - Pakistan: 51% out of service - - Qatar: 73% out of service - - Syria: 36% out of service - - Taiwan: 39% out of service - - Yemen: 38% out of service - - Zambia: 62% out of service France Telecom immediately alerted one of the two maintenance boats based in the Mediterranean area, the "Raymond Croze". This France Telecom Marine cable ship based at Seyne-sur-Mer has received its mobilization order early this afternoon and will cast off tonight at 3:00 am with 20 kilometers spare cable on board. It should be on location on Monday morning for a relief mission. Priority will be given to the recovery of the Sea Me We4 cable, then on the Sea Me We3. By December 25th, Sea Me We4 could be operating. By December 31st, the situation should be back to normal. [end] - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFJS+mUq1pz9mNUZTMRAqK2AKDvAHohzpBrrkHOPOGU4fnXZGX6wACg0Iez Fm171OqLyARb6aaQfkH5obg= =6tLt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/