Friday, December 19, 2008

PTCL ITI and TW1 BackBone Connectivity Affected by Submarine Cable Cut...

As luck would have it, the SMW3 and SMW4 submarine cable systems developed faults today which has severely impaired the Internet traffic to Pakistan.

At the moment, PTCL ITI is running at 25% less capacity. Users are experiencing high latency and a degraded service level resulting in extremely low speed on downloads.

TW1 also has the same issue. TW1 relies mainly on the SMW4 western segment.

The SMW4 fault is confirmed to be a sumbarine cable cut. Estimated repair time at this point-in-time is close to two weeks.

It is quite strange how multiple cable systems can be affected in different places at the same time. Is it just a coincidence?









Posted by Masud at 11:08 PM
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1 comments:

Bashukhan said...

Thanks for the update Masud bhai.
This exactly happened round about 2PM yesterday, the Friday 19th Dec when all of the sudden, all of my ssh sessions froze. Since PTCL broadband helpline is always desperate, so I called Cyber's. They told me its SMW4 which is currently broken. But if it comprises of more than one instance then its really strange how they all are broken at the same time! I did ping FLAG's few stations from its IP transit lookup glass tool, like Jeddah, Oman and Egypt and found them all as down.
Currently, internet is my basic source of earning and such compromises effect me a lot. I already tried to seek some redundancy alternative like BGAN which is very costly but it seems either its cabling structure or its PTA's lost luck which deprives us of internet.

5:22 PM, December 20, 2008

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