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Traffic Issues - Asia / Middle East / North Africa

By Netnibble Support | December 19, 2008

We are seeing high levels of latency and and reduced bandwidth to our services in Asia and Australia. This appears to be a major cable breakdown between Europe and Asia and the Middle East, although we are still attempting to find the exact reason.

Our Network Team are attempting to pin-point the cause for the drop in connectivity and, meantime, traffic is being re-routed along alternate routes.

Customers west of the affected areas may find difficulty in connecting to their servers in the areas affected.

We will update this entry with further information as soon as we receive it.

UPDATE: Three submarine cables carrying Internet traffic between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea have been damaged. Also affected are major cellphone networks and trading data between stock exchanges and dealers. Indications are that this will take several days to repair. Meantime all traffic is being re-routed and, as a result, high latency is being experienced. A large portion of the traffic is been re-routed via Hong Kong, which is affecting our services there.

Further information is available at BBC News, Bloomberg.com and other agencies.

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