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Re: Company threatens to cut Northern Marianas cable
by Scott Weeks 02 May '18

02 May '18

------ sean(a)donelan.com wrote: -------- From: Sean Donelan <sean(a)donelan.com> In 2015, the only submarine cable connecting the Northern Marianas Islands, a U.S. Territory, was damaged by a boulder. It cut off all telecommunications to the U.S. Territory for several weeks. To obtain a second cable for the islands, the CNMI government signed an agreement to subsidize a second fiber optic cable. <snip> -------------------------------------------------------- Note that's the second cable; for redundancy. http://www.pireport.org/articles/2016/11/03/saipans-sugar-dock-beaches-be-c… "Last year, the severance of IT&E’s fiber optic cable—the CNMI’s lone undersea cable—effectively disconnected the islands from the rest of the world as Internet and phone lines went down and put commerce at a standstill." "Docomo Pacific, owned by NTT Docomo Inc. of Japan, decided to place its own fiber optic cable along the main islands of Saipan, Rota and Tinian." “Should there be a natural phenomenon, we don’t want to have all our eggs in the same basket. Having that separation would minimize that risk. We were also looking to create as much separation to existing cables as possible,” That they didn't have much satellite backup is surprising to say the least. Especially with O3B and others soon coming up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_%28satellite%29 "The O3b constellation began offering service in March 2014" scott --- sean(a)donelan.com wrote: From: Sean Donelan <sean(a)donelan.com> In 2015, the only submarine cable connecting the Northern Marianas Islands, a U.S. Territory, was damaged by a boulder. It cut off all telecommunications to the U.S. Territory for several weeks. To obtain a second cable for the islands, the CNMI government signed an agreement to subsidize a second fiber optic cable. Apparently there is now a dispute about the subsidy. https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/356123/company-threate… A telecommunications company in the Northern Marianas is threatening to cut the fibre optic cable that connects Tinian and Rota to Saipan if the government fails to provide $US1.3 million it promised to pay for the service. Under a memorandum of agreement signed with the CNMI government in 2016, Docomo Pacific agreed to include Tinian and Rota in connecting their fibre optic cable 'ATISA' at a fee of $US650,000 per island. Earlier this week, the House of Representative included the $US1.3 million commitment to the telco in the $US15 million appropriations bill that also gave $US7 million to the CNMI Judiciary to fix its mould and air-conditioning problems. The legislation still needs to be passed by the senate and supported by the governor.

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Company threatens to cut Northern Marianas cable
by Sean Donelan 02 May '18

02 May '18

In 2015, the only submarine cable connecting the Northern Marianas Islands, a U.S. Territory, was damaged by a boulder. It cut off all telecommunications to the U.S. Territory for several weeks. To obtain a second cable for the islands, the CNMI government signed an agreement to subsidize a second fiber optic cable. Apparently there is now a dispute about the subsidy. https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/356123/company-threate… A telecommunications company in the Northern Marianas is threatening to cut the fibre optic cable that connects Tinian and Rota to Saipan if the government fails to provide $US1.3 million it promised to pay for the service. Under a memorandum of agreement signed with the CNMI government in 2016, Docomo Pacific agreed to include Tinian and Rota in connecting their fibre optic cable 'ATISA' at a fee of $US650,000 per island. Earlier this week, the House of Representative included the $US1.3 million commitment to the telco in the $US15 million appropriations bill that also gave $US7 million to the CNMI Judiciary to fix its mould and air-conditioning problems. The legislation still needs to be passed by the senate and supported by the governor.

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"Weird" Traffic about 10 hours ago
by Mike Hammett 01 May '18

01 May '18

This is going to be extremely scientific. </sarcasm> Did anyone else see "weird" stuff going on about 10 hours ago, about 6 PM Central on April 30th? I'm based in the Chicago area and have a large client on the east coast. I saw about a 25% drop in traffic for a half hour to an hour. Another Midwestern ISP also saw about 25% drops on two different upstream connections. A friend of mine runs an ISP in Virginia. He reported a dip in traffic (though didn't report how much of a drop), but also pings and IPSEC\L2TP worked, but couldn't SSH or do other activities. That friend reported another ISP in Virginia had problems at that same time. An ISP in Cyprus reported issues at that time. I'm looking to firm up what kind of issues and verify the time. Yet other ISPs report no problems at all. Smooth ramps on traffic graphs as one would expect at the beginning of prime time. I thought maybe "something" happened in Ashburn (fiber cut, DWDM card failure, etc.) as my client has a wave from the east coast to me in Chicago, but then the Midwestern ISP shouldn't have any dependency on Ashburn, given Chicago and Dallas. Then there's the guy in Cyprus, which shouldn't have any bearing on anything that happens over here in the States. I thought maybe it was an epic failure at one of the CDNs or other content networks, but then that wouldn't impact SSH or other management activities. Anyone else have any other data to help figure out what caused this? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com

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Announcement - Joint CENTR-Tech / DNS-OARC Workshop, Amsterdam, NL, 13th/14th October 2018
by Jacques Latour 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hi all! The 29th DNS-OARC Workshop will be a joint workshop combined with CENTR-Tech and will take place at the Hotel Okura, Amsterdam, Netherlands, on October 13th and 14th 2018. Workshop Milestones: - 01 May 2018 - Workshop Announcement - 01 Jun 2018 - Submissions and Registrations open via Indico - 13 Jul 2018 - Deadline for submission - 17 Aug 2018 - Contribution list published - 14 Sep 2018 - Full agenda published - 06 Oct 2018 - Deadline for slideset submission - 13 Oct 2018 - Workshop Jacques , on behalf of the joint Programme Committee OARC depends on sponsorship to fund its workshops and associated social events. Please contact <sponsor(a)dns-oarc.net> if your organization is interested in becoming a sponsor.

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RIPE 76: Call for Late Submissions and Lightning Talks
by Benno Overeinder 01 May '18

01 May '18

Dear colleagues, Summary: The RIPE PC invites late submissions (30 min) and Lightning Talks (10 min) for RIPE 76 Plenary. Similar to RIPE 74, and distinct from other previous RIPE Meetings, the RIPE Programme Committee decided to keep one plenary slot open for a so-called "late submission". This plenary slot gives the community the opportunity to submit presentations that report on recent developments, issues, security incidents, etc., that are relevant to the RIPE audience. Also please consider submitting a Lightning Talk for the Monday plenary. During the meeting week, we will accept Lightning Talk submissions for Tuesday and Friday. Please submit your plenary "late submission" or Lightning Talk via the PC submission system: https://ripe76.ripe.net/submission-form/ The deadline for the late submission is *Monday, 7 May*. Kind regards, Benno Overeinder RIPE PC Chair https://ripe76.ripe.net/programme/ripe-pc/ -- Benno J. Overeinder NLnet Labs https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/

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