[outages] Power loss at CAT Towers, Bangkok Thailand

[Sajal Kayan]

Seems like CAT gateway is back online. Trace to my Singapore box from True
is going thru CAT's gateway and is not lossy.

For a while in between my ISP True (which operates its own gateways) lost
all international connectivity for several users(everyone i asked)
including me. Now that connectivity is restored interwebs is working better
than ever (fingers crossed).


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:

>
> On Nov 30, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Sajal Kayan <sajal83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "CAT-IIG" is down for sure. Not sure if any of the others are located in
> the same building or not.
>
> Anti-government protestors in Bangkok, Thailand, apparently unaware that
> their own Internet media, television, and social media use would be
> negatively affected, shut off electrical power to the main Communications
> Authority of Thailand (CAT) IDC & PoP in the Bangrkak district of Bangkok,
> and also removed the control system for on-site generators and UPSes
> serving the facility.  Thousands of Thai Web sites and international Web
> sites hosted in Thailand are currently unavailable, including major
> corporate sites such as thaiairways.com; the CAT-run International
> Internet Gateway (IIG) peering PoP has also been affected, leading to
> disruption of network peering between participating Thai ISPs and other
> ISPs operating outside Thailand.  Thai ISPs with private and international
> peering retain global Internet connectivity, albeit with some
> latency-induced performance issues resulting from longer topological paths
> for Internet traffic.
>
> It has been communicated to protest leaders that these actions are
> counterproductive, given that the protestors themselves are heavily using
> Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, LINE, and other social media in order to
> coordinate their activities.  CAT report that they will have new emergency
> generators deployed within the hour, with police reinforcements to prevent
> further interruptions of service.
>
> Pro-government political activists have stated that they are mobilizing
> ~20,000 supporters (it is important to note that numbers of people are
> routinely exaggerated by all political groups in Thailand) in order to
> guard the CAT facility against renewed intrusions by protestors.
>
>
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>
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