[outages] [Fwd: Re: Undersea cable cut?]

[virendra rode]

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Does anyone across the pond have any further insight into this cut?

Although SEA-ME-WE 3 and 4 are suppose to provide redundancy for
eachother, not sure what impact has SMW4 segment caused, maybe latency?


Any feedback will be appreciated.


regards,
/virendra


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Subject: Re: Undersea cable cut?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:18:49 -0400
From: Chris McDonald <copraphage at gmail.com>
To: St. Onge,Adam <ASTONGE at travelers.com>
CC: nanog at nanog.org <nanog at nanog.org>
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There's a cut in SWM4

*SMW4 Segment 4.1 cable fault*

Cable shunt fault developed on SMW4 segment 4.1 (Egypt / Alexandria –
Branching Unit #4A onward France / Marseilles) at 07:15GMT on 14-Apr. 2010.
However the shunt fault has further deteriorated and the cable segment was
down at 10:03GMT.  Only four unprotected Singapore – London / Frankfurt
STM-4c IP trunks were being affected.

SMW4 NOC updated that there is a shunt fault in segment 4.1 between  Egypt /
Alexandria and France / Marseilles with cable fault on Fiber Pair #2 at
1886.152 km from Alexandria towards Palermo.  The traffic landed at Palermo
onwards to Europe was being affected, while the traffic running between
Alexandria and Marseilles via Fiber Pair #1 is still maintained.




On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:13 PM, St. Onge,Adam <ASTONGE at travelers.com>wrote:

> Seeing a serious uptick in latency to India from North America and am
> hearing reports of an undersea cable cut in the Mediterranean? Has anyone
> else heard something similar?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
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