Friday, December 29, 2006

Earthquake disrupts net

Hmm...typical. Apparently there was an earthquake near Taiwan that broke a whole bunch of internet cables connecting to China. So at the moment I can't access email, chat or out-of-china websites....apart from it seems...my blog!

I will however take advantage of this - since I can't access the net outside of china to try and find out how long it will take to fix this and since i can't ask someone to email me the info - maybe one of you would be kind enough to do a google search and find out and then post it in the comments? A few things i have read in chinese sounds like its going to take a while.... wonder how full my email inbox will be by then!

Comments:
Hi Sam,
I thought this was why I hadn't heard from you. I'm hearing it will take 2 weeks to repair the lines. How frustrating for you! I hope the situation can be fixed quickly. We're all thinking of you on this end, and hoping all is well. Give my little bear cub a hug for me! :)
Love,
Donna
 
Hi Sam - full details ...

MII Initiates Emergency Plan To Repair Damaged Internet
December 29, 2006

China's Ministry of Information Industry announced on December 28 that it had initiated an emergency plan with telecom operators, including China Telecom (CHA) and China Netcom (CN), to repair the seabed cable damaged by the earthquake in Taiwan earlier this week.

MII said that the earthquake, which hit off the coast of southern Taiwan on the night of December 26, has had a great effect on the Mainland's international communication links and has caused disruptions in voice and data transfers.

At present, China Telecom and China Unicom are pressing on repairing the damaged cables, but it is still not known when the things can resume to normal.

In Tiawan, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) says soon after the outages on its China-US links and the southern section of the SMW3 cables, the company had the traffic fixed on the restoration routes APCN and APCN2 cables in accordance with its contingency plan. However, another two aftershocks broke the restoration routes (APCN and the southern section of APCN2) in the early morning of December 27, and currently only the northern sections of SMW3 and APCN2 are available to accommodate the traffic.

For countermeasures, Chunghwa Telecom says it made use of the unaffected cables and satellite circuit (ST-1) to increase the number of usable circuits. The completion rate has also been improved greatly with routing assistance from foreign carriers. Until the afternoon on December 28, the completion rate to USA was upgraded to 76%, Mainland China 57%, Canada 64%, Japan 73%, Hong Kong 45%, Singapore 57%, Europe 50%, and southeastern Asia also raised to 30%.

Chunghwa Telecom capacity available in the northern section of APCN2 cable was utilized to transit the IPLC traffic to Hong Kong and Singapore via Mainland China. An interim lease of private cable was also adopted for continuing corporate IPLC service. So far, only limited IPLCs are left for repair. The capacity available in the northern section of APCN2 cable was also made use to increase the total international bandwidth.

Chunghwa Telecom says it has contacted cable ship companies for prompt repairs. Four cable ships will be dispatched to the outage areas and repair work will begin on January 1, 2007. The recovery is scheduled to be completed in around three weeks.

take care
james@brookfield
 
Thanks so much for the details on that.
 
Hi Donna,

yep, sorry, can't send any emails out at the moment. Your packages arrived - just in time for Christmas! Will let you know more when I get back on email.

Sam
 
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