Thread: Slow NET - Three Undersea Cables Cut in Mediterranean !!!

Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication (Update3)

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Three Undersea Cables Cut in Mediterranean 
Three major submarine fiber optic cables were cut in short succession: 
"Sea Me We 4" at 7:28am, "Sea Me We3" at 7:33am and FLAG at 8:06am CET. 
France Telecom said the causes of the cut, which is located in the 
Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily
to Egypt, remain unclear.

France Teleco said most of business-to-business traffic between Europe 
and Asia has been 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 . France Telecom estimated 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 has issued mobilization orders to two cable repair ships.
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. 

francetelecom . com 
19-Dec-08

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thanks for this news.

i was wondering abt my net connection.
so maybe it is slow bcoz of this.

At least we get a logical reason for slow speed thanks for the information

was wondering why rapidshae links were slow last night!

and still slow

I was experiencing slow speed yesterday and sites like engadget.com are still not opening.

I thought it was of the ridiculous downstream SNR margin(11 dB) and attenuation(51 db) i was getting yesterday. Today values are normal.

The main hindi TV news channels are giving little importance to this big incident. I came to know about it when I looked in news website.

Originally Posted by pramodaind

The main hindi TV news channels are giving little importance to this big incident. I came to know about it when I looked in news website.

coz it's not related to the interests of ordinary peoples...our news channels always looks for spicy news

btw browsing speed is really low for international sites :hammer:

I cant login into my own websites!! the situation looks very grim, the repair work will be over only on jan 1 , just heard from hostgator, damn...is there any other servers that BSNL have that we can reroute too?? I am using the bangalore centre I think

you cant do any rerouting.. its not even a dns problem.. in fact ISP's have used some alternative lines cause the network to clog and become slow..

internet is working but half speeds now

cant india have its own sea cable network in some parts of the world , it will improve our communication

Repairs begin on undersea cable

A French crew has begun to repair two undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, disrupting internet and phone communications.

A robot submarine will locate the ends of the cables on the sea bed and bring them to the surface to be re-connected.

They were cut somewhere between Sicily and Tunisia, probably by an anchor.

Egypt says it has been able to restore most of its communications by re-routing services, but other parts of the Middle East remain badly affected.

Experts have warned that it may be days before the fault is fixed and that the knock-on effect could have serious repercussions on regional economies.

Experts from France Telecom Marine arrived at the site of the damage to the SEA-ME-WE4 and SEA-ME-WE3 lines on board the cable ship, Raymond Croze, at 1330 GMT on Sunday.

They then sent a remotely-operated submarine robot called "Hector" to the sea bed to begin the search for the two ends of each line.

It is unclear how long it will take, as a ship anchor could have dragged them several kilometres from their normal positions.

Once located, the cable ends will be brought to the surface by the robot and repairs will be carried out in a special facility on the ship - a process that could take days.

"We have to fix the cable fibre by fibre, and it's a very huge cable," Mr Aymard told the Associated Press.

France Telecom said it expected to repair SEA-ME-WE4 by 25 December and SEA-ME-WE3 by the end of the year.

The third line believed to have been severed in the same incident, FLAG, is not operated by the same consortium and will be repaired by another ship.