Sri Lanka internet disruption said not caused by I
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Sri Lanka Telecom Thursday decided to withdraw its case against the Indian ship accused of severing the island&#39;s main link to the internet after conclusive evidence that the vessel had nothing to do with the damage caused to submarine fibre optic cable
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Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swathe of the Middle East on Wednesday after an undersea cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, government officials and Internet service providers said.
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Despite Window Server vulnerability recently reported, company says there's no cause for alarm.
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An Australian company that manages Internet domain name registrations acknowledged that it was partially responsible for a Web domain hijacking that left Public Access Networks (Panix), a New York Internet hosting company, without an Internet address over the weekend.
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Internet traffic from India to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. has slowed down, as Internet service providers (ISPs) have started diverting traffic from Middle Eastern links to slower links through the Asia-Pacific region, according to the head of an ISP association in India.For reasons as yet unclear, two underwater cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged&#160;Wednesday, including one from Flag Telecom, owned by India&#39;s Reliance Communications, and another from the South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) consortium.&quot;These links carry most of India&#39;s premium traffic to the Atlantic region, resulting in a disruption of about 50 to 60 percent of the bandwidth from India on Wednesday when the cables were first damaged,&quot; said Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Service Providers&#39; Association of India (ISPAI), in an interview Thursday.Most of the traffic has now been routed through submarine cable links in the Asia-Pacific but traffic to the east coast of the U.S. and the U.K. will be slow, because of the longer latency involved by these diversions, Chharia said.Repairs to the Flag Telecom cable would take at least 10 to 15 days, which would mean that Indian companies, including outsourcing companies, will be affected for this period, Chharia said. A Reliance spokesman could not immediately provide an update on the status of the repairs, and other measures taken by Flag Telecom.India&#39;s second largest outsourcer, Infosys Technologies, said that its Internet service had not been affected by the outage in the Middle East. The company uses a lot of redundant links from a variety of service providers, a spokeswoman said Thursday.Another large Indian outsourcer, Satyam Computer Services, of Hyderabad, said that even as the links went down in the Middle East, the company automatically switched over voice and Internet traffic to networks from other service providers.A lot of Satyam&#39;s traffic that used to go through the Middle East links is now being routed through Singapore. &quot; We are seeing an increase in latency in MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) from 280 milliseconds to 310 milliseconds, and in Internet traffic from 300 to 350 milliseconds, which isn&#39;t a big problem,&quot; said Srinivasu C, head of network and systems at Satyam.The ISPAI recommends providing more backups on the Atlantic sector to ensure that the current problem does not get repeated in future, Chharia added.
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One of the best things I like about the Internet is the boundary-less nature of this amazing network. I can check out user views of people (from here in India) around the world on the India issues.
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Cut cables in the Mediterranean Sea have slowed Internet traffic from India to the U.S. and the UK.
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Tsunamis that killed tens of thousands and ravaged coastlines around South Asia on Sunday are unlikely to impact the region's IT industry, which is centered away from affected areas.
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Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections
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Network carriers say U.S. users from companies and the government are experiencing Internet delays when connecting to India and the Mideast because of the re-routing of traffic across the Pacific Ocean after underwater cables were cut in the Mediterrranean.
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Desktops, servers affected, but no vulnerabilities deemed critical.
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Internet access does not make adults more likely to take part in formal education, research suggests.
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WELLIGAMA, Sri Lanka -- Disaster struck with no warning out of a faultlessly clear blue sky.
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Sri Lanka cricket officials will meet later on Monday to discuss whether they will continue with their tour of New Zealand after devastating tsunami waves killed about 4,500 people in the country, team officials said.
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Colombo, Aug. 26 (PTI): Sri Lanka has released a seized Indian cargo ship after it found no evidence linking the vessel to the damage caused to the island&#39;s main submarine cable, the Navy said today.
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Reports say it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down internet for 75 million people
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Yesterday China Herald tipped me that the Yahoo.com website (the English version) didn&#8217;t resolve. I checked, saw that it was true and thought I would check back the next day if the situation had changed.  At times these things happen here in China and it could have been a technical problem instead of a block. [...]