Line cut in Mediterranean?
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?
Hello James, 2013/3/27 James Smith <thepacketmaster@hotmail.com>:
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?
SMW4 : http://www.seacom.mu/news/article-140/seacom-outage-08-40-gmt/ "SEACOM can confirm that at 06:20 GMT 27 March, the SMW4 cable system suffered a cable cut off the coast of Egypt. Earlier this morning, SEACOM had restored all services on both SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems. SEACOM is currently in the process of prioritizing and reallocating already available capacity for customers and sourcing further capacity to re-establish full restoration. We will update further as information becomes available." regards, pierre.
On 27/03/2013 12:49, James Smith wrote:
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?
smw4 is down, off the north coast of egypt:
http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2013/03/seacom-suffers-another-cable-disruption/
Nick
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?
See the outages list: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2013-March/005386.html Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
Thanks for the quick responses, great information!
From: thepacketmaster@hotmail.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Line cut in Mediterranean? Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:49:10 -0400
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?
Yes smw4 issues across Egypt. In India (and Pakistan also) services are badly impacted. Here in India most of traffic from major networks is going via East Asia route and we are experiencing latency of over 700ms with US and Europe from last few hours. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James Smith <thepacketmaster@hotmail.com>wrote:
Thanks for the quick responses, great information!
From: thepacketmaster@hotmail.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Line cut in Mediterranean? Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:49:10 -0400
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?
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Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest attack in history' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636 Huasong Zhou Associate Kalorama Group, LLC 1000 Potomac Street, NW, Suite 350 Washington, D.C. 20007 Mobile: +1 763 221 6784 Email: huasong@kalorama.com www.kalorama.com <http://www.kalorama.com/> On 3/27/13 12:38 PM, "Anurag Bhatia" <me@anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
Yes smw4 issues across Egypt.
In India (and Pakistan also) services are badly impacted.
Here in India most of traffic from major networks is going via East Asia route and we are experiencing latency of over 700ms with US and Europe from last few hours.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James Smith <thepacketmaster@hotmail.com>wrote:
Thanks for the quick responses, great information!
From: thepacketmaster@hotmail.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Line cut in Mediterranean? Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:49:10 -0400
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?
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Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it worse. So, right now most of the traffic taking east bound routes. Who needs DDoS at this stage, these links are already chocked up :)
Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest attack in history' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
-- Regards, Aftab A. Siddiqui
quite a few EU to India cables are impacted right now 4/7 down. Sent from my iPad On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:14, "Aftab Siddiqui" <aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it worse. So, right now most of the traffic taking east bound routes. Who needs DDoS at this stage, these links are already chocked up :)
Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest attack in history' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
-- Regards,
Aftab A. Siddiqui
Via renesys http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-naval-forces-capture-3... Sent from my iPhone On 27 Mar 2013, at 21:53, "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org<mailto:neil@domino.org>> wrote: quite a few EU to India cables are impacted right now 4/7 down. Sent from my iPad On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:14, "Aftab Siddiqui" <aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com<mailto:aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com>> wrote: Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it worse. So, right now most of the traffic taking east bound routes. Who needs DDoS at this stage, these links are already chocked up :) Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest attack in history' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636 -- Regards, Aftab A. Siddiqui
The BBC has a similar story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21963100 On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Neil J. McRae <neil@DOMINO.ORG> wrote:
Via renesys
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-naval-forces-capture-3...
Sent from my iPhone
On 27 Mar 2013, at 21:53, "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org<mailto:neil@domino.org>> wrote:
quite a few EU to India cables are impacted right now 4/7 down.
Sent from my iPad
On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:14, "Aftab Siddiqui" <aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com<mailto:aftab.siddiqui@gmail.com>> wrote:
Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it worse. So, right now most of the traffic taking east bound routes. Who needs DDoS at this stage, these links are already chocked up :)
Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest attack in history' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
-- Regards,
Aftab A. Siddiqui
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Dear James, all, On 3/27/13 1:49 PM, James Smith wrote:
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?
a view from RIPEstat (interface to the routing data collected by RIS / RIPE NCC), comparing 4 countries, is detailed in this RIPELabs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/mediterranean-cable-disruption-as-seen-... Regards, Vesna
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