India Internet Disruption - Update 2 (8AM IST / 31 JAN 2008)

India's internet connectivity is still not fully restored, though all ISP's have restored to alternate routes, but the routes are still taking about 500 - 600 miliseconds that usually take about 270 - 300. This is causing major delays in International VoIP Traffic, Email movement between India and other countries and also Website access. There are reports that the cable that has been damaged is a part of the Flag Telecom, Reliance Owned organisation. Attached is the map of the cable at Egypt.



Though there are no updates on the Flag Website about the outage, but a report on Computer World confirms a similar thought.

I have been in continous touch with the Reliance IDC network and their Service Managers and the confirmation is that this is going to be a long outage, and we will not have full speeds for another few days.

Reliance, FLAG, Yipes and all these companies make the major part of the Internet economy worldwide, and most of the network is self healing, but I am not sure how much insight is given into monitoring the network, this is not the first instance where reliance is affected, but then, it just proves, we are now dependent on the Internet and the Global players need to build in larger redundancies, and not route everything towards and from the US.

Indian News papers are now reporting the outage, but sadly there has been no comment from either Bharti, VSNL, or Reliance, or FLAG for that matter about this anywhere, all the papers are printing are the same comments from ISAPI in India.

GS