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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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