Repairs start on undersea cable cut near UAE
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Repair work has started on one of  three broken undersea cables providing data services to parts  of the Middle East and Asia, a cable operator said, and a  repair ship was expected to reach a second cable on Tuesday.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 20--GULFPORT -- Workers will be repairing water lines along Washington Avenue next week, causing a boil water notice to be in effect then.   The outage is scheduled for Tuesday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
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Day two of the Eastern hemisphere's widespread Internet outage has seen an incremental worsening of the situation as another submarine cable has been severed.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Three experts in high-voltage electrical cables have been asked to inspect the wiring on HMCS Chicoutimi and to test several theories behind the cause of last month's deadly submarine fire, the military said Sunday.
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Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
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Oops, were you guys using that? Vietnam telecom officials estimate it will take at least a month and cost over $5.84m to fix damaged undersea fiber-optic cables stolen by fishermen for salvage.â¦
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The first of a planned network of tsunami early warning buoys is being installed in the Indian Ocean.
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Multiple fiber cuts to undersea cables show the fragility of the Internet at its choke points.
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Traffic has returned to normal on undersea Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf that were cut last month, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, cable owner FLAG Telecom said Monday.
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A breakdown in an international undersea  cable network badly disrupted Internet links to India and Egypt  on Wednesday.
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Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet access after an undersea cable was damaged
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A repair ship began work Tuesday at the site where an Internet cable was cut last week in the Persian Gulf, and a second vessel was to arrive later that day at the spot north of Egypt where two other cables were cut just two days earlier, FLAG Telecom said.
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Iraqi engineers have fixed most of the damage caused by a sabotage attack earlier this month on the main pipeline carrying Iraqi oil to Turkey, but the country still depends on a network of substitute lines to export crude, an official with the North Oil Co. said on Monday.
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On Wednesday, Internet traffic to Middle Eastern countries through two international data pipelines was greatly reduced or totally severed, as a result of breaks in undersea cables.
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Two underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged on Wednesday morning, dragging Internet connections throughout the Middle East and in parts of Asia to a crawl.The cables, one operated by Flag Telecom and the other by a consortium of 15 telecommunications operators, account for 75 percent of the network capacity between Europe and the Middle East, according to Stephan Beckert, an analyst with TeleGeography Research.A third cable was undamaged, but it is older and has far less capacity than the others, he said.Operators believe the damage was caused by ship anchors during a heavy storm at sea, Beckert said. Wire services reported that ships heading for Egypt&#39;s northern coast were diverted due to the storms, and their anchors may have severed the cables several miles from shore.AT&amp;T confirmed that its service to some areas of the Middle East was affected, but said it was now re-routing traffic. Etisalat, the telecommunications provider in the United Arab Emirates, reported that both Internet traffic and international voice calls were affected by the incident. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and all of the Gulf states were affected, Beckert said.As much as 70 percent of Egypt&#8217;s Internet network was down, and over half of India&#39;s bandwidth was cut due to the disruption, according to a report from Reuters that cited local officials.Most of the major operators have backup plans in place for this type of incident, Beckert said. In this case, they&#39;ll have to route traffic from the Middle East to Asia, across the Pacific Ocean, through the U.S. and then across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, he said. That will result in latency problems that will likely lead to sluggish connections until the cables are repaired, he said. The operators in the Middle East told him that they should be able to repair the damages in one to two weeks.The accident should affect mainly Internet traffic. Voice calls travel over the same cables, but operators will give priority to the voice calls, which take up relatively little capacity but produce more revenue than data traffic. Beckert estimates that 1 percent or less of traffic carried on the cables is voice.
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But more will break - it's normal The three - yes, just three - seabed telecoms cables which were broken in two (only two) recent incidents are expected to be fixed by next week, according to the operating companies. The ongoing tinfoil-hat frenzy that has followed the outages may take longer to die down.â¦
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A third submarine internet cable is severed in the Middle East, compounding global net problems.