Pakistan reported minor while India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage. “There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt, which has impacted Internet connectivity in India,”
Said damaged also affected Pakistan The SEA ME WE- 4 Submarine Cable encountered a cut of 25 kilometres from Alexandria Cable Station of SMW4 (segment 4/Alexandria-Marseilles).
APP, a pakistan leading news agency added his experience in this story from Lahore.
“The cable cut disrupted all west-bound (towards Europe) traffic on SMW4 of all major upstream service providers like TIS, Verizon, etc. Internet Service Providers Association Vice President and Brain Telecommunication Limited (BTL) Director Dr Shahid Farooq Alvi told APP here on Wednesday that as a result all major operators of the region, including Pakistan/BTL, are experiencing congestion on west-bound routes.
He said the BTL had already shifted traffic load to its alternative paths to reduce degradation in services of the customers and was also working closely with the partners to increase alternative capacity.
“Moreover, our upstream connectivity with FLAG is also disrupted and we are currently working with FLAG NOC to get the exact ETR,” he added. Regretting the inconvenience, he said the BTL is taking every possible action to ensure that its customers face minimal service quality issues from the disruption”.
while watch GEO TV they reported in a breaking news that Load was shifted from SEA ME WE 4 to SEA ME WE 3 for pakistan region!
Fianally the accident happens due to badly dropped ship anchor, that damaged undersea Internet provisioning telecom cable in the Mediterranean.
Titumir said
Hello! im from Bangladesh. Is there any one who can tell me, the restore time of this path?? We are in big trouble………………
faizandosani said
hi,
as per my information majority of traffic was diverted from SEA
ME WE 4 to SEA ME WE 3 within 24 hours. and almost ineternet services ijn all middle east region was restored. there may any other symptoms which causing you to still suffering slower connection. Any how i have confirmed and qutoed down from an internet source that
” Flag Telecom has said that it would start repairs from Tuesday (05-Feb-2007) this week on a damaged submarine telecommunications cable linking Egypt and Italy”
i still recommend you to reverify from your ISP that where the problem is…
you can navigate through following link for information regarding this issue
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/020508-indias-vsnl-helps-restore-internet.html