[Outages] Quake affected cable repair

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Sawarkar, Rahul wrote:
> Some 2nd hand info I got. 
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thanks Rahul!



regards,
/virendra

> 
> *****
> 
> Update from Equinix on the status of some of the undersea cables:
> 
> Cable Repair Status:
> 
> Summary:
> 
> 1) Hong Kong <-> Busan & Hong Kong <-> Toucheng
> 
> - expected to be fixed in 5 days
> 
> 2) APCN System 1 Segment B17
> 
> - ship mobilized; no ETA
> 
> 3) APCN System 2 Segment B5
> 
> - will fix after #2
> 
> 4) SMW3 S1.8 (Fangshan - BU4) and S1.7 (BU3 - BU4)
> 
> - ship mobilized; no ETA
> 
> 5) Tanshui <-> Shantou & Hong Kong <-> ChongMing
> 
> - no plans to repair yet
> 
> 6) APCN2 S3 & S7
> 
> - plans to mobilize ship
> 
> 7) Hong Kong <-> Shanghai <-> Korea
> 
> - no plans at this time
> 
> Details:
> 
> RNAL Segment (Hong Kong - Busan) & Segment (Hong Kong - Toucheng) :
> 
> - The RNAL cable path between Busan and TongFuk was down at 1243utc
> 26-Dec. The other cable path, Hong Kong - Toucheng Taiwan was also down
> at 1942UTC. It caused the Hong Kong being isolated from the cable
> system. The fault point of segment HKG - Toucheng is about 731km from
> Tong Fuk cable station. 
> 
> - Cable Ship Lodbrog arrived at the repair ground in the afternoon of
> 28-Dec. Plan-of-Work is not yet available but expected to complete in 5
> days if everything goes smooth. 
> 
> APCN System 1 Segment B17 (Hong Kong branch) :
> 
> - The traffic on APCN system 1 was down since 1815utc 26-Dec. The fault
> is in the segment B17 (Hong Kong Branch). Power reconfiguration was
> completed on 27-Dec evening hence the Korea - Japan and Taiwan were back
> to service. 
> 
> - Cable ship Asean Restorer, who is now in Singapore, is mobilized for
> the APCN SYS1 & SYS2 repair. 
> 
> APCN System 2 Segment B5 (Taiwan Branch) :
> 
> - The traffic on APCN system 2 B5 (Taiwan branch) was also down at
> 2044utc 26-Dec. It made the Taiwan node being isolated from APCN system.
> The fault location is about 920km from Toucheng cable station. 
> 
> - The segment will be repaired after the System 1 work. 
> 
> SMW3 S1.8 (Fangshan - BU4) and S1.7 (BU3 - BU4) :
> 
> - SMW3 reported that the traffic to Fangshan was lost since 1225utc
> 26-Dec. It was due to two faults appeared in SMW3 S1.8 and S1.7. The
> fault point of S1.8 is about 44km from FangShan cable station, whilst
> the fault point of S1.7 is 459km from Shantou cable station. 
> 
> - Cable ship Retriever, who is now in Philippine, is mobilized for the
> 
> SMW3 repair. 
> 
> APCN2 Segment 7 (Tanshui - Shantou) & Segment 3 (Hong Kong - ChongMing)
> 
> :
> 
> - The APCN2 S7 (Tanshui - Shantou) was reported down at 1606UTC 26-Dec
> whilst the S3 (Hong Kong -
> 
> ChongMing) was also down at 1801utc. It caused the traffic isolation
> between Southern Asia (Hong Kong/Singapore/ Malaysia/Philippine) to
> Northern Asia (Japan/Taiwan/Korea). 
> 
> - The HKG to Singapore/Malaysia/Philippine traffic was still working
> fine in the southern Asia region. 
> 
> - The fault point of S7 is about 905km from Tanshui cable station,
> whilst that of S3 is about 2091km from ChongMing cable station. 
> 
> CS KPL (Japan) will be mobilized for the repair of APCN2 S3 & S7 :
> 
> - China-US segment W1 (Shantou - ChongMing) & Segment S1 (Shantou -
> 
> Okinawa/SLO)
> 
> - China-US segment W2 (Spur to Fangshan) was isolated since 1227utc
> 26-Dec. Fault point is about 9.7km from FangShan
> 
> - At 1859UTC, another cable fault developed on China-US segment S1,
> 502km from Shantou cable station. 
> 
> - At 0207utc 27-Dec, the segment W1 (Shantou - ChongMing) was also down
> that made the Shantou node being isolated from China-US cable system.
> 
> The fault point is about 452km from Shantou cable station. 
> 
> CS KDD Ocean Link (KOL) will be mobilized for the repair of CHUS. 
> 
>  
> 
> FLAG FEA Sub-System 8 (Hong Kong - Shanghai - Korea) :
> 
> - FLAG FEA reported that the Sub-system 8 had suffered cable fault at
> 2056UTC. The fault point is between Repeater 9 and Repeater 10 near Hong
> Kong. 
> 
> - Currently no any repair schedule for the FEA repair.
> 
> ****
> 
>  
> Hope this helps
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
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