Co-incidentally, I've just been discussing this with a customer, and
have a trace from a router in Dubai going to Lebanon ... taking in a
global tour as it heads off to the East. RTT is approaching 400ms and
it isn't pretty :(
The past few weeks have certainly been interesting for anyone in that
region, or with customers there.
Paul.
On 02/04/2013 12:19, Ben Vaux wrote:
I have been based in the UAE for the last nine years and we have had
cables cut in Egypt four or five times over that period impacting
performance to varying degrees.
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Will Hargrave
*Sent:* 02 April 2013 00:24
*To:* Matthew Melbourne; 'Neil J. McRae'; 'waynemerricks'
*Cc:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [uknof] Please Advise: UK - India Routing issues
In Egypt a lot of these cables share the same infrastructure, even the
same cable sheath.
So shared fate is inevitable.
Matthew Melbourne <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Not to mention the issues with SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW4) on 27th March.
http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2013/03/28/seamew
e-4-damage-hampers-internet-access-in-region/
Reports suggests EIG (Europe-India Gateway) and IMEWE
(India-Middle-East-Western-Europe) were in 'maintenance mode'.
Very fishy.. ;-)
Cheers,
Matt
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil J. McRae
Sent: 01 April 2013 17:25
To: waynemerricks
Cc:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [uknof] Please Advise: UK - India Routing issues
As will says many cable issues - falcon and flag seems to be on for now but
this was causing chaos last week.
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On 1 Apr 2013, at 13:45,"waynemerricks" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Hi all,
I apologise if this is the wrong place to ask but I was recommended
reaching out to the UKNOF lists after not getting very far in other
lists/forums.
I work for a UK company with a satellite office in Northern India served
by BSNL. About 4 weeks ago our inter office latency doubled to
approximately 750ms. After some investigation on various UK ISPs I realised
that they're all being routed via London -> New York -> Palo Alto -> Tokyo
-> Singapore -> Chennai.
The return route from India was still Mumbai -> London fairly directly as
it always has been.
Some time on Wednesday (27th) the route changed again. Now the UK is
bouncing from London -> Egypt -> Mumbai. This is almost normal but I'm
still averaging about 100ms higher latency than normal (I could get under
250ms on a good day but more usually it was about 300ms).
At about the same time the return route from India changed completely (its
now going Mumbai -> Chennai -> Singapore -> Tokyo -> Palo Alto -> New York
-> London).
I'm fairly convinced its a BSNL issue but they're doing the usual telco
thing of"it must be your fault." Is there anything I can use to prove one
way or the other where the fault lies?
I have a handful of trace routes (attached) that didn't convince them, so
where should I go next?
Any advice even if its to tell me to try elsewhere would be much
appreciated.
Regards,
Wayne
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