Oregon storms affect trans-pacific traffic

[Sean Donelan]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22869272-15306,00.html

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.