| Posted by nauae, 12-19-2008, 12:22 PM | |
Major Disruption to Traffic in Middle East/North Africa [MERGED]
A major loss of connectivity, reducing overall bandwidth to a crawl with very high latency, is currently affecting most of the Middle East and parts of North Africa and the Indian sub-continent.
The disruption started at around 07:30 GMT and has continued ever since. This is affecting all traffic in and out of the region - particularly SMTP.
Typical TTL to the US and Europe is currently around 1800ms on Broadband and 800ms on Tier 1 - compared to 180ms and 90ms respectively under normal conditions.
We have not yet been able to establish the reason - although it is likely to be a cable breakage somewhere between the Middle East and Europe.
If anyone here has any news on the subject, or is also experiencing regionalised outages (we know parts of southern Europe have some connectivity issues) let us know.
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| Posted by nauae, 12-19-2008, 01:21 PM | |
As an update to the above, it is now confirmed that 3 out of the 4 fibre cables that connect the Middle East, North Africa and Indian sub-continent to Europe and US have been cut.
These cables carry around 90% of the Internet and Voice communications to these areas, and will take considerable time to repair. On the last occassion (early 2008) it took almost 1 month to repair.
In the build up to Christmas this will serverely affect eCommerce and Call Center activity - this will also affect hosting companies with customers in these regions which will not be able to access their servers/hosting accounts.
The affected cable providers are FLAG, SMW3 and SMW4.
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| Posted by Patrick, 12-19-2008, 01:31 PM | |
I'm not seeing anything major on the Internet Traffic Report website, but there is a noticeable increase in latency being recorded:http://www.internettrafficreport.com/
The 7 day graph also shows a slight drop in traffic and an increase in latency:http://www.internettrafficreport.com/7day.htm
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| Posted by nauae, 12-19-2008, 02:04 PM | |
Latest news reports confirm damage and severity:
Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communicationhttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aFM6PQsd6i2Q
Cable damage disrupts internet serviceshttp://www.computerweekly.com/Articl...t-services.htm
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| Posted by kilo#3, 12-19-2008, 03:11 PM | |
Mass Internet Outages In Egypt
Mass Internet outages in Egypt after cables cut.
Egypt's communications ministry says Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea have been cut, causing massive Internet outages.
The ministry says three Internet cables running through the Mediterranean were cut Friday morning. Throughout the country the Internet is almost completely down or working sporadically.
The ministry says it will take "several days" for cables to be repaired and is trying to switch Egypt's Internet to an alternative route.
It is the second large-scale Internet outage in Egypt this year. 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.
The impacted cable systems are the SMW4 cable, also known as SEA-ME-WE 4, SMW-3, also known as SEA-ME-WE 3, and Falcon.
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| Posted by Limespace, 12-19-2008, 03:31 PM | |
This sucks man!! My net has become 3x slow
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| Posted by SteveWright, 12-19-2008, 05:42 PM | |
More info via this press release with statistics etc..etc..http://www.orange.com/en_EN/press/pr...p081219en.html
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| Posted by mariushm, 12-19-2008, 05:43 PM | |
Made it on Slashdot:http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../12/19/1932219
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| Posted by DephNet[Paul], 12-19-2008, 06:19 PM | |
And its on the BBC.
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| Posted by RSkeens, 12-19-2008, 09:27 PM | |
I've had really bad timeouts today
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| Posted by ZL6net, 12-19-2008, 10:39 PM | |
Ususally a ship doing something illegal in the area drops it's anchor(s) and cuts the cables.
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| Posted by CymraegWalesHosting, 12-19-2008, 11:00 PM | |
And i was about to phone my ISP and have a big winge lol. Ive been downloading backups all days (10GBs) and there downloading at my normal net speed of about 2mb/s, how when it comes to loading pages, its taking about 30secs to load this site. (normally 5secs)
I presume this is the problem then, by the way, im based in Cardiff, UK with Virgen Media.
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| Posted by keywolf, 12-20-2008, 05:55 AM | |
Found the news on Neowin, 3 of 4 cables have been cut somehow.
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