New Zealand floored by cable outage
Tim Richardson writes in The Register:
Telecoms and internet services in New Zealand are returning to normal after two fibre cables were damaged on the North Island.
In the first instance, a fibre on a bridge in the Rimutaka area was damaged.
Services through that fibre were able to be routed through different parts of the network until the second incident occurred in south Taranaki where a post-hole digger damaged a fibre late this morning," New Zealand's telco Telecom said in a statement.
The disruption began at 10.48am (New Zealand time) hitting voice, data, internet and mobile services and even led to the closure of the country's stock exchange.
Telecom services have now been restored, said an apologetic Telecom.
Update: An AP newswire article in InformationWeek this morning provides additional information on this outage:
A major outage in Telecom Corp.'s cable network Monday disrupted data services, electronic cash transactions, mobile phone, and Internet services as well as shutting down the nation's stock exchange for hours, the telecommunications provider said.
Widespread disruption to business and private services was caused by two cable breaks on its North Island network.
They were repaired by mid-afternoon Monday--at least five hours after they occurred.
The stock market ground to a halt at 11:01 a.m. local (23:01 GMT Sunday), suspending all trading just 11 minutes after Telecom detected the first impact of the outage. It was the third time that data link failures have halted trading in the past nine months.
Other faults have also closed the exchange on three other occasions during the period.
The crash also cut data services, retail electronic cash systems, broadband Internet access, and mobile phone services, leading to an overload of landline telephone systems across much of the country.
Telecom spokesman John Goulter said the widespread break in services was the result of a "totally unforeseeable circumstance."
posted by Fergie @ 6/20/2005 06:44:00 AM
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