Outage/Fibre Cut affecting Middle East/Asia

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Posted by nauae, 03-27-2013, 05:29 AM
Anyone else seeing abnormal latency on connections in to and out of the Middle East / Near Asia?

Since around 3 hours ago traffic that was previously routing in to Europe up through the Mediterranean is now going East instead through India -> Singapore -> Japan ->US.

TTL has gone for 70ms way up to 550ms in most cases.

This might be linked to a fibre cable cut in the Med earlier in the week - but as far as I know the damage only affected one of the many intercontinental fibre lines.
Posted by nauae, 03-27-2013, 08:05 AM
As suspected the cause is a cut to one the main fibre cables connecting the Middle East, Africa and near Asia to the west.

The SMW4 cable was cut at around 06:20 GMT just off the coast of Egypt. This cable carries around 70% of the Internet bandwidth for the affected region.

As a result, most ISPs are now routing traffic out through the Eastern route, which will mean exceptionally slow response times for typical users.

Normally these cable cuts take 7 to 10 days to repair, depending on cable repair ships availability and weather.
Posted by F-DNS, 03-27-2013, 12:17 PM
You can follow Seacom's updates here: http://www.seacom.mu/news

And a bit more background info: http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2013/03/...le-disruption/
Posted by WII-Aaron, 03-27-2013, 12:30 PM
I can also confirm fiber cut in the Mediterranean. No ETA. Just hold on and wait it out.
Posted by hostcake, 03-27-2013, 04:50 PM
This is affecting many people from Asia.As I can confirm ,internet is slow in India,pakistan and Sri lanka