Submarine Cable Breakage Causes Severe Latency Issue

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Days after Hurrican Hato, multiple Internet issues rose for several countries in South East Asia. Majority were issues connecting to US based services / game servers.  The submarine cables, known as the Asia America Gateway (AAG), Intra Asia (IA) and SEA-ME-WE3 (SMW3), all encountered problems on Sunday (27th) afternoon.

 

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Vocus Communications has confirmed that the SEA-ME-WE3 (SMW3) subsea cable is down between Perth and Singapore due to a break in the line.

 

"Customers can expect to see increased latency to Asian destinations until this link is restored."

 

Source: (Here)

 

Vietnam News confirms the Asia-America Gateway was also affected and the said damage was kilometers away from Hong Kong

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"The AAG is believed to have been ruptured at two points about 66 kilometers (41 miles) and 85 kilometers from its Hong Kong station" Source (Here)

 

Submarine Cable Map below shows the three affected submarine cables: 

[Guest Thudnik]

wow

[unijab]

probably the NSA installing a tap device.

[Bigbootyjudy]

Dang, nice first post