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

[virendra rode]

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Maybe outages as such may spark some interest in routing more capacity
from europe and asia over the transrussia networks.


regards,
/virendra


Chris McDonald wrote:
> i'm not sure one necessarily fails to the other... if people don't subscribe
> to the other for restoral or if they're supersmart--  to one of the
> transrussia overland routes, they're out of luck.
> 
> i frankly don't believe enough capacity exists on the transrussia cables to
> backup swm3 and swm4.
> 
> i work for a network based across the pond
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:48 PM, virendra rode <virendra.rode at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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>
> References:
> <768FB653686AE54A9B4FB9A1503F03F51C9BFF502A at TENK7MVB.prod.travp.net>
> 
> 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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