East Asia will be without a normal connection for another three weeks.
Repairing submarine communication cables damaged by the Taipei earthquake in China may take 2 or 3 weeks. According to the Chinese media, the disaster resulted in malfunctioning of 4 telecommunication highways, the repair of which would cost approximately $ 6 million. The cables lay at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean about 15 km from the southern tip of Taiwan Island, Prime-TASS reported.
To repair one cable will take at least 5 days. To do this, specialists will need to dive deeper and find damaged sections of highways. After they have to lift the cables with hooks to the sides of the ships and carry out the necessary repairs.
At the same time, Internet access providers will look for alternative routes to restore traffic. Recall that without the Internet and international communication after the earthquake left many areas of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. In particular, in Hong Kong, the Internet connection was completely paralyzed. The largest failure in recent years has affected 60-70% of the telecommunications sector in East Asia and has shown the vulnerability of submarine cables, ITAR-TASS reports.
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Representatives of China Netcom, China's second largest telecom company, inform that in Beijing data exchange over the Web is extremely slow. They say that the elements damaged the infrastructure linking China and the United States, as well as Southeast Asia with Europe. Now, China Netcom, in conjunction with American and European operators, is establishing communication channels via satellite. Internet communication is also difficult due to the fact that users have begun to more intensively access online resources - they are constantly looking for additional information on the Web on the web.
Seismic activity is familiar to Taiwan, located in the so-called Pacific “ring of fire” - surrounded by a number of volcanoes and geological fault lines, writes Vedomosti , referring to the Associated Press. In most cases, earthquakes here are minor, but there are very serious disasters. So, in 1999, an earthquake measuring 7.6 points claimed more than 2,300 lives. The Taiwan earthquake of 6.7 points on December 26, 2006 killed 2 people.
To repair one cable will take at least 5 days. To do this, specialists will need to dive deeper and find damaged sections of highways. After they have to lift the cables with hooks to the sides of the ships and carry out the necessary repairs.
At the same time, Internet access providers will look for alternative routes to restore traffic. Recall that without the Internet and international communication after the earthquake left many areas of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. In particular, in Hong Kong, the Internet connection was completely paralyzed. The largest failure in recent years has affected 60-70% of the telecommunications sector in East Asia and has shown the vulnerability of submarine cables, ITAR-TASS reports.
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Representatives of China Netcom, China's second largest telecom company, inform that in Beijing data exchange over the Web is extremely slow. They say that the elements damaged the infrastructure linking China and the United States, as well as Southeast Asia with Europe. Now, China Netcom, in conjunction with American and European operators, is establishing communication channels via satellite. Internet communication is also difficult due to the fact that users have begun to more intensively access online resources - they are constantly looking for additional information on the Web on the web.
Seismic activity is familiar to Taiwan, located in the so-called Pacific “ring of fire” - surrounded by a number of volcanoes and geological fault lines, writes Vedomosti , referring to the Associated Press. In most cases, earthquakes here are minor, but there are very serious disasters. So, in 1999, an earthquake measuring 7.6 points claimed more than 2,300 lives. The Taiwan earthquake of 6.7 points on December 26, 2006 killed 2 people.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4901/
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