Power loss at CAT Towers, Bangkok Thailand
Apparently protesters have cut electricity to CAT (communications authority of thailand) towers in Bangkok and have taken over the diesel generators. The building is without power and most international links going out via CAT would be down. CAT is the biggest international internet gateway in Thailand. Cant find news reports about this yet. Above info is based on what thai people have told me based on reading tweets. http://internet.nectec.or.th/internetmap/map/internationalmap/inetmap102013_... "CAT-IIG" is down for sure. Not sure if any of the others are located in the same building or not.
On Nov 30, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Sajal Kayan <sajal83@gmail.com> wrote:
"CAT-IIG" is down for sure. Not sure if any of the others are located in the same building or not.
Anti-government protestors in Bangkok, Thailand, apparently unaware that their own Internet media, television, and social media use would be negatively affected, shut off electrical power to the main Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) IDC & PoP in the Bangrkak district of Bangkok, and also removed the control system for on-site generators and UPSes serving the facility. Thousands of Thai Web sites and international Web sites hosted in Thailand are currently unavailable, including major corporate sites such as thaiairways.com; the CAT-run International Internet Gateway (IIG) peering PoP has also been affected, leading to disruption of network peering between participating Thai ISPs and other ISPs operating outside Thailand. Thai ISPs with private and international peering retain global Internet connectivity, albeit with some latency-induced performance issues resulting from longer topological paths for Internet traffic. It has been communicated to protest leaders that these actions are counterproductive, given that the protestors themselves are heavily using Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, LINE, and other social media in order to coordinate their activities. CAT report that they will have new emergency generators deployed within the hour, with police reinforcements to prevent further interruptions of service. Pro-government political activists have stated that they are mobilizing ~20,000 supporters (it is important to note that numbers of people are routinely exaggerated by all political groups in Thailand) in order to guard the CAT facility against renewed intrusions by protestors. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton
On Nov 30, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
CAT report that they will have new emergency generators deployed within the hour, with police reinforcements to prevent further interruptions of service.
Power has been restored, most peering seems to be up and after some extended re-convergence, connectivity appears to be largely nominal. True 3G are still reporting issues related to some PE at Bangkrak, are limiting data subscribers to EDGE until issues are resolved (no ETR, best guess is fairly quickly). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton
Seems like CAT gateway is back online. Trace to my Singapore box from True is going thru CAT's gateway and is not lossy. For a while in between my ISP True (which operates its own gateways) lost all international connectivity for several users(everyone i asked) including me. Now that connectivity is restored interwebs is working better than ever (fingers crossed). On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
On Nov 30, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Sajal Kayan <sajal83@gmail.com> wrote:
"CAT-IIG" is down for sure. Not sure if any of the others are located in the same building or not.
Anti-government protestors in Bangkok, Thailand, apparently unaware that their own Internet media, television, and social media use would be negatively affected, shut off electrical power to the main Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) IDC & PoP in the Bangrkak district of Bangkok, and also removed the control system for on-site generators and UPSes serving the facility. Thousands of Thai Web sites and international Web sites hosted in Thailand are currently unavailable, including major corporate sites such as thaiairways.com; the CAT-run International Internet Gateway (IIG) peering PoP has also been affected, leading to disruption of network peering between participating Thai ISPs and other ISPs operating outside Thailand. Thai ISPs with private and international peering retain global Internet connectivity, albeit with some latency-induced performance issues resulting from longer topological paths for Internet traffic.
It has been communicated to protest leaders that these actions are counterproductive, given that the protestors themselves are heavily using Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, LINE, and other social media in order to coordinate their activities. CAT report that they will have new emergency generators deployed within the hour, with police reinforcements to prevent further interruptions of service.
Pro-government political activists have stated that they are mobilizing ~20,000 supporters (it is important to note that numbers of people are routinely exaggerated by all political groups in Thailand) in order to guard the CAT facility against renewed intrusions by protestors.
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On Nov 30, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Sajal Kayan <sajal83@gmail.com> wrote:
For a while in between my ISP True (which operates its own gateways) lost all international connectivity for several users(everyone i asked) including me. Now that connectivity is restored interwebs is working better than ever (fingers crossed).
Yes, this was reconvergence, devices coming up in non-optimal states and having to be tweaked, et. al. Bangrak IDC is now completely online, CAT IIG is completely online. Only True Move 3G currently experiencing some issues, should be resolved soon. Protestors have apparently learned their lesson - disrupt the Internet and they lose the ability to coordinate their protests, heh. ;> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton
WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303562904579229782754803... On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
On Nov 30, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Sajal Kayan <sajal83@gmail.com> wrote:
For a while in between my ISP True (which operates its own gateways) lost all international connectivity for several users(everyone i asked) including me. Now that connectivity is restored interwebs is working better than ever (fingers crossed).
Yes, this was reconvergence, devices coming up in non-optimal states and having to be tweaked, et. al. Bangrak IDC is now completely online, CAT IIG is completely online. Only True Move 3G currently experiencing some issues, should be resolved soon.
Protestors have apparently learned their lesson - disrupt the Internet and they lose the ability to coordinate their protests, heh.
;>
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