Showing posts with label fiberoptic cable. Show all posts
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February 10, 2008

curious! Yes, the ME cables are restored

Internet service restored in Mideast and Asia
Reuters
Published: February 10, 2008

MUMBAI: Services on two of three broken undersea cables providing Internet services to parts of the Middle East and Asia have been restored and repairs on the third were nearly complete Sunday, the cables' operators said.

Web access in southern Asia and parts of the Middle East was disrupted after the breaks occurred nearly two weeks ago in segments of two cables off the northern coast of Egypt, forcing service providers to reroute traffic. This was followed by a breach in a separate cable between Dubai and Oman.

The Dubai-Oman cable, Falcon, and one of the two off Egypt, FEA, are operated by FLAG Telecom, a subsidiary of Reliance Communications of India.

"The customer circuits have been normalized on FEA and Falcon that were earlier restored on alternate routes" after the cable cuts last week, FLAG Telecom said Sunday.

The other cable, Sea-Me-We 4, is co-owned by Videsh Sanchar Nigam, which previously said it had restored a majority of its Internet connectivity to the Middle East and South Asia within 24 hours of the breach, using other cables.


More than 95 percent of transoceanic telecommunications and data traffic is carried by submarine cables, and the rest by satellite, according to the International Cable Protection Committee, an association of 86 submarine cable operators.

February 06, 2008

TransAsia Europe optical fibe network

This is only PART I of 4 .. the rest can be accessed at the link.

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TAE Network Map


TAE System Route, Subsegments
Country Sub-segment
from to Current status
China A 1 Shanghai Urumqi in service
A 2 Urumqi Border Kazakhstan in service

Kazakhstan B 1 Border China Almaty in service
B 2 Almaty Sogety in service
B 3 Sogety Merke in service
B 41 Merke Simhent in service
B 42 B 5 Simhent Sarybulak Border Uzbekistan Border Kyrgyzstan in service in service
B 6 Merke Border Kyrgyzstan in service
B 7 Simhent Aktau TBD
Kyrgyzstan C 1 Border Kazakhstan
(to Sarybulak) Bishkek in service
C 2 Border Kazakhstan
(to Merke) Bishkek in service

Uzbekistan D 1 Border Kazakhstan Tashkent in service
D 2 Tashkent Kokdola in service
D 3 Kokdola Border Turkmenistan in service
D 4 Kokdola Denau TBD*
D 5 Denau Border Tajikistan TBD*

Tajikistan E 1 Border Uzbekistan Dushanbe TBD*

Turkmenistan F 1 Border Uzbekistan Ashkhabad in service
F 2 Ashkhabad Border Iran in service
F 3 Ashkhabad Landing point TCL (Turkmenbashy) TBD

Iran G 1 Border Turkmenistan Mashad in service
G 2 Tehran Tabriz in service
G 3 Tabriz Marand in service
G 4 Tabriz Border Azerbaijan in service
G 5 Mashad Teheran in service
G 6 Mashad Border Pakistan TBD
G 7 Marand Border Turkey in service
G 8 Marand Border Armenia in service

Turkey H 1 Border Iran Ankara in service
H 2 Ankara Landing point ITUR and KAFOS ( Istanbul ) in service
Ukraine K 1 Landing point ITUR
and BSFOCS (Odesa) Kiev in service
K 2 Kiev Lvov in service
K 5 Lvov Border Hungary in service

Germany M 2 Border Austria Frankfurt/Main in service

Azerbaijan N 1 Baku
(Landing point TCL, TCL-2) Border Georgia in service
N 2 Baku
(Landing point TCL, TCL-2) Border Iran in service

Georgia O 1 Border Azerbaijan Tbilisi in service
O 2 Tbilisi Border Armenia in service
O 3 Tbilisi LP Georgia-Russia (Poti) in service

Armenia P 1 Border Georgia Yerevan in service
P 2 Border Iran Yerevan in service

Hungary T 1 Border Romania Budapest in service
T 2 Budapest Border Austria in service
T 3 Budapest Border Ukraine in service

Austria U 1 Border Hungary Vienna in service
U 2 Border Germany Vienna in service

Pakistan V 1 Islamabad Border Afghanistan TBD
V 2 Islamabad Border Iran TBD


Notes:

TBD To be determined
* temporary via mixed media or PDH
BSFOCS in service
GEO-RUS in service
ITUR in service These Submarine Cable Systems
KAFOS in service are not part of TAE

TCL planned RFPA – Date: TBD
TCL-2 planned RFPA – Date: TB

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