Australia: Storm Downs Aussie ISP Links
Andrew Colley writes on Australian IT:
Wild storms pounding the north western states of America have wiped out one of Australia's major internet traffic routes to the US.More here.
Southern Cross Cable operations vice president, Dean Veverka, has confirmed that hurricane-strength storms and flooding have wiped out the carrier's Oregon cable route and halved its bandwidth between Australian and the US. Southern Cross's customers in Australia include iiNet, Internode and AAPT.
The cable had been severed between its Nedonna Beach and Hillsboro facilities, Mr Veverka said. The company has a secondary cable that reaches the US coast via Hawaii and California.
The outage has already begun hitting Australian internet providers. Greg Bader , the chief technology officer with Perth-based internet provider iiNet said it had already begun prioritising time-sensitive traffic to manage the outage.
posted by Fergie @ 12/03/2007 11:27:00 PM
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