The northern leg of TAT14 seems to have just taken an outage about an hour ago. As the southern leg was already down due to other faults, this will probably be an exciting time for many providers.
Anyone have additional info regarding this outage? Links? Besides tat-14.com - it seems to be down or just flooded with requests. -Jack --- jmalcolm@uraeus.com wrote:
The northern leg of TAT14 seems to have just taken an outage about an hour ago. As the southern leg was already down due to other faults, this will probably be an exciting time for many providers.
This is a basic map of the fiber path for those that haven't found one yet. http://www.kddiscs.co.jp/e/business/02_15.html - jared On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:32:16AM -0800, Jack McCarthy wrote:
Anyone have additional info regarding this outage? Links? Besides tat-14.com - it seems to be down or just flooded with requests.
-Jack
--- jmalcolm@uraeus.com wrote:
The northern leg of TAT14 seems to have just taken an outage about an hour ago. As the southern leg was already down due to other faults, this will probably be an exciting time for many providers.
-- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
I saw that link when I googled for TAT-14. I was looking more for a "see, I told you so" link that I can forward to management that provides proof that this is why our UK office is down...if you know what I mean. Here's an interesting explanation of undersea cabling: http://davidw.home.cern.ch/davidw/public/SubCables.html -Jack --- Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
This is a basic map of the fiber path for those that haven't found one yet.
http://www.kddiscs.co.jp/e/business/02_15.html
- jared
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:32:16AM -0800, Jack McCarthy wrote:
Anyone have additional info regarding this outage? Links? Besides
tat-14.com
- it seems to be down or just flooded with requests.
-Jack
--- jmalcolm@uraeus.com wrote:
The northern leg of TAT14 seems to have just taken an outage about an hour ago. As the southern leg was already down due to other faults, this will probably be an exciting time for many providers.
-- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
In message <20031125185227.78491.qmail@web41106.mail.yahoo.com>, Jack McCarthy writes:
I saw that link when I googled for TAT-14. I was looking more for a "see, I told you so" link that I can forward to management that provides proof that this is why our UK office is down...if you know what I mean.
Here's an interesting explanation of undersea cabling: http://davidw.home.cern.ch/davidw/public/SubCables.html
And don't forget Neal Stephenson's wonderful perspective on the subject in Wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
I suppose we won't know for sure until they pull up the cable for repair, but has anyone heard the official (or speculative) root cause of the two cuts on the TAT-14 cable? Trawler? Seismic activity? Sharks? That guy running around cutting Qwest fiber? Please reply off-list... Thanks! -Sounil On Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:19 PM, Jack McCarthy <nanog@jackmccarthy.com> wrote:
Here's the official word we received:
"The outage on TAT-14 Segment I is on-going. This segment is on the European side between the Netherlands and France, effecting traffic to UK, Ireland, France, and other areas in Europe. This is the 2nd failure on this ring cable which has caused the protection path to fail. The International Restoration Team is working an ad-hoc restoration which will take several hours. They have already restored some VC4 facilities and this work is on-going."
-Jack
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