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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