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Internet disrupted in Egypt and India
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday.
Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70 percent of the country's Internet network.
The ministry said in a statement it was not known how the cable was cut but that services would probably take several days to return to normal.
India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage.
"There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in India," Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), an internet service provider, said in a statement.
VSNL said its service had been "largely restored" by diverting to another cable.
India said it had lost more than half of its capacity.
"There has been a 50 to 60 percent cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters.
He told the Headlines Today news channel that a "degraded" service would be activated by Wednesday night, but full restoration will take 10 to 15 days.
Chharia said companies, including some of India's many outsourcing businesses, had been affected.
(Additional reporting by Alaa Shahine in Cairo)
(Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Keith Weir)
Submarine cable cut torpedoes Middle East access
Web slowdown hits India, Pakistan too
By John Oates → More by this author
Published Wednesday 30th January 2008 17:02 GMT
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A submarine cable in the Mediterranean was cut earlier today, resulting in a dramatic slowdown in internet access for people in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and much of the Middle East.
A spokesman for Flag Telecom, the owner of the severed cable, told the Reg: "It is a problem off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. For some reason ships were asked to anchor in a different place to normal - 8.3km from the beach. One of the ship's anchors cut our cable but there are multiple cuts - we're not the only company having problems."
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He said they were in the process of getting a repair ship out to assess the damage but he warned the whole process could take 12 to 15 days even though the ship was in the Med. He said users in India would have a slower internet access as a result.
Such major damage to the internet backbone can cause major problems despite redundancy which allows some re-routing. The loss of so much bandwidth is likely to have an impact.
A Reg reader told us: "We've got some connectivity to our India office, but it's very flakey (currently losing half the packets) which could be a result of overloading. Is very similar to a couple of Christmas' ago when there was a earthquake near Taiwan and it severed undersea cables causing major bottlenecks on what was left to most of Asia for a couple of weeks."
Apart from being serious for the region, the cable break could also hit large UK and US enterprises which have offshored business processes and backoffice functions to companies in India, Pakistan or the Middle East. ®
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Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.
A fault in the pipeline, which runs between Sicily and Egypt, has dramatically reduced access in countries including Saudi Arabia, Dubai and India, leaving millions of workers struggling to get online.
It is not yet clear what is wrong with the undersea cable, but the effects are already being felt across the region. Reports from the Middle East suggest that most countries are almost completely without access to the internet, while authorities in Mumbai have said that more than half of India's bandwidth has been lost.
"There has been a 50 to 60% cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Charia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters.
The outage could have drastic impacts around the globe. Not only will the lack of connectivity strike the technology industry, including India's so-called Silicon City of Bangalore, but the banking industry is also likely to suffer as stock markets struggle to complete international trades.
Despite the vast number of individuals who have access to the web, nearly all the internet's traffic is routed through a small number of cables submerged deep below the planet's sea beds.
In 2003, net access in western Europe was hit by a fault in a cable running between the US and France, while communications in Asia were severely disrupted in 2006 by seismic activity.
An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of Taiwan, and damaged cables connecting South Korea, China, Japan and Singapore. As well as leaving two people dead, the outage severely reduced internet access and other communications for several days.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A breakdown in an international undersea cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt on Wednesday.
Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70 percent of the country's Internet network.
The ministry said in a statement it was not known how the cable was cut but that services would probably take several days to return to normal.
India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage.
"There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt which has impacted internet connectivity in India," Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL), an internet service provider, said in a statement.
VSNL said its service had been "largely restored" by diverting to another cable.
India said it had lost more than half of its capacity.
"There has been a 50 to 60 percent cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters.
He told the Headlines Today news channel that a "degraded" service would be activated by Wednesday night, but full restoration will take 10 to 15 days.
Chharia said companies, including some of India's many outsourcing businesses, had been affected.
(Additional reporting by Alaa Shahine in Cairo)
(Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; Editing by Keith Weir)
Submarine cable cut torpedoes Middle East access
Web slowdown hits India, Pakistan too
By John Oates → More by this author
Published Wednesday 30th January 2008 17:02 GMT
Find out how your peers are dealing with Virtualization
A submarine cable in the Mediterranean was cut earlier today, resulting in a dramatic slowdown in internet access for people in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and much of the Middle East.
A spokesman for Flag Telecom, the owner of the severed cable, told the Reg: "It is a problem off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. For some reason ships were asked to anchor in a different place to normal - 8.3km from the beach. One of the ship's anchors cut our cable but there are multiple cuts - we're not the only company having problems."
http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.comms.4159/networks;dcove=d;sz=336x280;tile=3;ord=YRmXOdRk6j0AABp8zzgAAAJp?
He said they were in the process of getting a repair ship out to assess the damage but he warned the whole process could take 12 to 15 days even though the ship was in the Med. He said users in India would have a slower internet access as a result.
Such major damage to the internet backbone can cause major problems despite redundancy which allows some re-routing. The loss of so much bandwidth is likely to have an impact.
A Reg reader told us: "We've got some connectivity to our India office, but it's very flakey (currently losing half the packets) which could be a result of overloading. Is very similar to a couple of Christmas' ago when there was a earthquake near Taiwan and it severed undersea cables causing major bottlenecks on what was left to most of Asia for a couple of weeks."
Apart from being serious for the region, the cable break could also hit large UK and US enterprises which have offshored business processes and backoffice functions to companies in India, Pakistan or the Middle East. ®
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.
A fault in the pipeline, which runs between Sicily and Egypt, has dramatically reduced access in countries including Saudi Arabia, Dubai and India, leaving millions of workers struggling to get online.
It is not yet clear what is wrong with the undersea cable, but the effects are already being felt across the region. Reports from the Middle East suggest that most countries are almost completely without access to the internet, while authorities in Mumbai have said that more than half of India's bandwidth has been lost.
"There has been a 50 to 60% cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Charia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters.
The outage could have drastic impacts around the globe. Not only will the lack of connectivity strike the technology industry, including India's so-called Silicon City of Bangalore, but the banking industry is also likely to suffer as stock markets struggle to complete international trades.
Despite the vast number of individuals who have access to the web, nearly all the internet's traffic is routed through a small number of cables submerged deep below the planet's sea beds.
In 2003, net access in western Europe was hit by a fault in a cable running between the US and France, while communications in Asia were severely disrupted in 2006 by seismic activity.
An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of Taiwan, and damaged cables connecting South Korea, China, Japan and Singapore. As well as leaving two people dead, the outage severely reduced internet access and other communications for several days.
One year on, another undersea cable cut. Brace yourselves ppl...slow speeds for the next 3 weeks. :/
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neevarp
Regulars
Hmm thats explains the slow performance 
Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info.
03Idlewild
Newbie
3 freakin weeks???? Damn I need to download the premiere epi of Lost S4 tomorrow!
OUCH!!!!! 
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Called CC, and this particular buddy boy insisted that he had no such news. So they'll send a technician over tomorrow...whatever.. their waste of time. Even though I told him that he should talk to his supervisor and they should be aware of this whole Egypt shit, he didn't seem to keen on applying any semblance of his mind on it. Turds.
https://www.speedtest.net
Called CC, and this particular buddy boy insisted that he had no such news. So they'll send a technician over tomorrow...whatever.. their waste of time. Even though I told him that he should talk to his supervisor and they should be aware of this whole Egypt shit, he didn't seem to keen on applying any semblance of his mind on it. Turds.