Thanks - I was about to post and ask what was going on. From the poor performance over the last week, it seems the cable has been out for about a week already! - I am on Optus GSM network and a friend who is on Telstra just phoned. On 09/02/16 15:44, Scott Howard wrote: > PPC1 is around 6,900km long, so the fault is over 2,300km from Sydney - not > 700km. It's also somewhere in the Pacific ocean, not just down the road > from SeaWorld... > > The major cause for the delay in fixing it is the fact that the ship that > is normally on standby for repairs like this is currently in Geelong being > fitout to repair the Basslink cable that broke several weeks ago. > > Scott > On Feb 8, 2016 7:26 PM, "Chris Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Australia has a broken international cable. From the TPG website "The >> TPG Network Operations Centre received multiple alarms for the PPC-1 >> cable system between Sydney and Guam. The alarms indicated that a >> submarine line card had lost its payload. " >> [I guess this is jargon for something like a broken connection] >> >> "A Network Incident ticket was created and the issue was immediately >> escalated to the PPC-1 transmission engineering team." >> Isn't it nice to be told that they have a standard way of handling >> faults by escalating incident tickets - but it isn't really important >> information. >> The fault has been located: >> "The Transmission engineering team, in collaboration with >> http://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from/Guam/to/Sydneyinfrastructure >> vendors, completed preliminary investigations and have found a fibre >> fault approximately 4,590 kilometres from Guam." >> That sounds serious. It's a long way away. "Estimated restoration: >> Monday 7 March." (30 days+) >> But: the distance from Sydney to Guam? approximately 5,304 km (in a >> straight line) [http://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from/Guam/to/Sydney >> ]. >> So the fault is actually about 714 km from Sydney. That's closer than >> the Gold Coast! If that had been announced it would sound easier to fix >> than the distance of 4590 km from Guam... is this just a PR cover >> story, it's a long way away so it's reasonable to expect to take a month >> to fix it? >> It's probably a reasonable delay anyway - need to get hold of a cable >> repair ship, they don't grow on palm trees - but let's have more >> carefully thought information. >> >> -- >> Chris Johnson >> _______________________________________________ >> Link mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link >> > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link >
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