IP: Back the boat up Dave, I think we just hit something: Good Morning Silicon Valley Tue Nov 21 12:00:11 EST 2000

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Back the boat up Dave, I think we just hit something? Australia's largest 
>international Internet cable was 
><http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/20001121/A25-2000Nov21.html>severed 
>Monday, partially disrupting Internet traffic in Singapore, Indonesia and 
>Australia. The cable, carries about 60 percent of Australian ISP Telstra's 
>international Web traffic. While Telstra has since managed to 
><http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/026478.htm>redirect 
>most of its Internet traffic to another undersea cable, bringing its 
>Internet services back to around 75 percent of capacity, its not yet been 
>able to determine how long it will take for Internet traffic across the 
>cable to return to normal.



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