I know it's not Friday but I just checked my email and got this. One
comment on the outage, during the first couple of days that the line was
down my spam and phishing emails dropped by about 80%. Coincidence, I
think not!
KennyB
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Seymour [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 9:25 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] Friday - Article Taiwan Earthquake Paralyzes Asian
Communication
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.
--
Dave Seymour, CID+
Catapult Communications Inc.
800 Perimeter Park Dr, Suite A
Morrisville, NC 27560
Direct: (919)653-4249
Main: (919)653-4180
Fax: (919)653-4297
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