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. > > --------------------------------------------------- > > 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. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------