Undersea sub-cable cut causes mass internet outages

December 20, 2008

Filed under: Miscellaneous — SticKer @ 5:41 am

Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.

These carry more than 75 per cent of traffic between the Middle East, Europe and America.

Egypt’s communications ministry says Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages.

Undersea cables were also damaged in January, causing outages in the Mideast and India.

Yemen and Sudan were also having phone and Internet difficulties Friday, but it was unclear if it was connected to the outage.

Packet loss for each country can be checked at: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm

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that’s horrible if internet is out in so many places!

Comment by Work At Home (1 comments) — January 10, 2009 @ 6:26 am
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the last year were disconnected for 3 days OMG!!!

Comment by GrowthHormoneAntiaging (1 comments) — January 13, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
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That area is like the bottle neck for the whole internet, where Europe traffic meets Asia traffic. It is almost conspiracy inspiring, all these underground cables being cut…

Comment by Blog Flipping (1 comments) — January 19, 2009 @ 3:08 am
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Wow, I’m glad I don’t live any of those places!

Comment by Josh (3 comments) — January 19, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
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That kind of problems happen a lot here….

Comment by ONLINECASINONODOWNLOAD (1 comments) — February 13, 2009 @ 10:43 pm
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is still having problems?

Comment by BlackJackBooks (1 comments) — March 4, 2009 @ 8:21 pm
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I heard about this, it caused some problems for a while

Comment by email marketing software (1 comments) — April 21, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
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I can’t imagine what it would be like without the internet, thats just devastating

Comment by fast property sale (1 comments) — June 2, 2009 @ 10:17 am