The strange thing is that I have had zero disruption of communications
with the server of a Taiwanese company whose products I beta test (yes,
they have their own server housed in their own building, with a T3
connection into a local hub). I expected problems but have had none, not
even a slowing of downloads. Mystery!
Brian
Dave Seymour wrote:
> Catapult has an office in China that is having trouble with
> email. See article below. Interesting Reading.
>
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> Taiwan Earthquake Paralyzes Asian Communication
>
>
>
> Taiwan Earthquake Brings Bank Operations to a Halt
>
>
>
> An earthquake in southern Taiwan on Tuesday night damaged an undersea
> optic cable, causing serious disruptions to international phone lines
> and Internet connections in Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
> The earthquake estimated at 7.1 magnitude by the U.S. Geological Survey
> shook the ocean floor 23 km southwest of Hengchun, southern Taiwan at
> 9:26 p.m. on Tuesday. At least six undersea optic cables connecting
> Korea, China and Japan, Hong Kong and Macau, and mainland China, Hong
> Kong, the U.S. and Europe were cut off, causing communications
> interruptions on Wednesday.
>
>
> Taipei residents walks in front of Chunghua Telecom's headquarters on
> Wednesday in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan's telephone communications with
> neighboring Asian countries were cut off Wednesday, hours after a
> powerful earthquake struck the southern part of the island, killing two.
> Chunghwa Telecom said an undersea cable off the southern coast had been
> damaged, interrupting communications with Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
> and Hong Kong. Communications with China were also cut off, because
> calls to the mainland from Taiwan are routed through Hong Kong./AP
>
>
>
> Taiwan was the worst affected. Chunghwa Telecom said 60 percent of the
> phone lines to the U.S. were cut off and 98 percent of communication
> linking Taiwan with Malaysia and Singapore suffered disruptions. The
> company forecast it will take two to three weeks for the nation to
> completely repair the damaged cables. The earthquake also disrupted
> 1,400 phone lines and 84 international phone lines of Japanese telecom
> firm NTT, making it impossible to call Southeast Asia from Japan.
>
>
> A customer at HSBC's branch in Apgujeong, Seoul reads a notice on the
> bank's out-of-service ATM on Wednesday afternoon after a powerful
> earthquake hit Taiwan and disrupted the bank�s overseas servers./Yonhap
>
>
>
> In China, the earthquake temporarily blocked access to major foreign
> websites and caused partial disruptions to phone calls to Taiwan and
> Hong Kong. Korea Telecom said a total of 9,985 communications lines were
> damaged including 9,871 ordinary call lines, 92 dedicated lines and 33
> Internet lines as six undersea cables connecting Korea and Taiwan were
> damaged. Citibank Korea and domestic offices of HSBC and Bank of
> America, whose servers are located overseas, had to stop ATM and online
> banking services.
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