Internet Outages Hit India, Middle East (Slow Internet service again expected?)
Posted on February 1, 2008
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In case your internet service becomes slow in the coming days, don’t blame it on the local ISPs. Why? Because cables, which lie off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean were snapped last Wednesday. Deja vu—remember how East Asia suffered nearly two months of outages and slow service after an earthquake damaged undersea cables near Taiwan in December 2006.
See excerpts of the Associated Press News (7 hrs ago):
.NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country’s bandwidth in half.
The disruption — which has hit a swath of users from Egypt to Bangladesh — began to affect much of the Middle East on Wednesday, when outages caused a slowdown in traffic on Dubai’s stock exchange.
Such large-scale disruptions are rare but not unknown. East Asia suffered nearly two months of outages and slow service after an earthquake damaged undersea cables near Taiwan in December 2006.
The cables, which lie off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean, were snapped as the working day was ending in India on Wednesday and the impact was not immediately apparent.
But by Thursday, the Internet was sluggish across the country with some users unable to connect at all and others frustrated by spotty service. The Internet Service Providers’ Association of India said the country had lost half its bandwidth.
In all, users in India, Pakistan, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain were affected. Engineers in several countries were scrambling to reroute traffic to satellites and to other cables.
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Like those in India, many providers in the region will have to reroute their traffic around the globe, to Southeast Asia (this includes the Philippines) and across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This is like when rerouting traffic in one place, that place will be filled with all sorts of cars, thus, causing chaos, slow down, dead ends, etc.
On the other hand the experts in the Internet industry are amazed as to why the INTERNET HAS NOT CRASHED yet, when its design is the very design that was first implemented for military use in the USA several years ago. Staying online is a miracle in itself, say the experts.
And take note, the European Union proposes to SCRAP EVERYTHING and START WITH A NEW INTERNET SYSTEM, and not wait for the crash to happen. Do I perceive the unnecessary fears of the Y2K fiasco happening all over again? If it ain’t broken why fix it? Or is the Internet a far serious thing such that risks should not be allowed to take place?
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Oh no. Hope this doesn’t affect us too badly.
Still, the Europeans are a bit over-reacting. Then again they may be right. Perhaps it’s time to re-think the internet, well it’s material parts like cables, infrastructure and stuff.
That is bad news!
The Europeans are right !
You don’t wait till the bridge collapses before you build a new one, isn’t it?
ooohhh that’s why…thanks for the info!
The world without internet is unthinkable kaya hwag naman sanang mag-crash!Hopefully, they will be able to fix those busted cables and nothing worse than that would happen in the future.
Oh my, I hope it won’t be that bad and concerned people can fix the problem soon. Thanks for sharing this information.
My internet connection here is slow too but apparently it’s because the ISP is upgrading their services which I hope will be beneficial to its users. TMNet (the main ISP provider here) monopolizes the market and they give is good-for-nothing connection most of the time.