India Internet Outage Update 5 - 1000 IST - FEB1/2008

It's been two days that the connectivity to India is affected. Most of the backup routes are now in place, and traffic has started moving. We are now seeing the Transit time come down to about 350 milliseconds and are still far off from the 270 that is desirable.

In the meanwhile, National News Papers (finally) have woken up to carry the story, links here

Times of India
Hindustan Times

Updates from ITR

1. Traffic Index, it is now reviving and is around 72 for VSNL Gateway at Mumbai


2. Response time is normalizing, and is now becoming faster


3. Packet loss is now reduced to Under 5%, from a peak of 10% it touched.