Did something happen to Asia's Internet connections?

toadspittle · July 25, 2005, 1:30pm

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

Right now, Bangalore, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Japan, and Malaysia are experiencing 100% packet loss from this test site. Did an undersea cable break or something? Or is this level of outage typical and not significant?

ParentalAdvisory · July 25, 2005, 1:49pm

Terrorists? :eek:

Captain_Amazing · July 25, 2005, 2:16pm

There were bad earthquakes in Tokyo and the Nicobar Islands/Indonesia this weekend. Could that have had something to do with it?

toadspittle · July 25, 2005, 3:25pm

Hmm. There is this:

http://computerworld.com.my/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=1823&pubid=4&issueid=53

Pakistan begins repairs to fix Internet outage

Work has begun on the repair of an undersea cable that provides Internet services to Pakistan, following an outage that has reduced bandwidth to the country since June 27.
John Ribeiro
IDG News Service\Bangalore Bureau
Updated: Jul 06, 2005 09:29 AM

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A fault in an undersea cable has affected the country’s Internet connectivity and international telephony service since June 27. The fault was detected south of Karachi on the Sea-Me-We 3 (South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 3) submarine cable, the only cable link to Pakistan.

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Sea-Me-We 3 is 39,000 kilometers long in total and includes 39 landing points in 33 countries in Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia. Other countries on the affected segment of the cable are India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Djibouti, although Internet services to those countries were not affected, according to reports.

Noone_Special · July 25, 2005, 4:17pm

Tel-Aviv present and accounted for… no outage here.