Another fiber cut near Taiwan ? due to Typhoon Morakot ?

Wed Aug 12 14:14:57 UTC 2009

I just chatted to my contact in SG (over Instant Messenger) who said
they barely even noticed a problem. The provider is Star Hub.

2009/8/12 Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <gaurab at lahai.com>:
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>> At that time the cause was a cable fault somewhere in/near Japan, but at
>> this stage I'm not sure if this is the same problem or not.
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> Now confirmed that APCN2, C2C and EAC are cut. also unconfirmed reports
> of SMW2 and SWM3 are out.  FLAG and TGN seems to be not had any issues
> so far.
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> It seems at this point, the fault is more on the South China Sea and the
> alarms I got seem to confirm that. For the geography, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:South_China_Sea.jpg
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> Circuits from Japan to SG, TH, PH are down, but not to HK. My
> perspective, yours may vary.
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> - -gaurab
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