India Internet Outage - Update 3 (1200 IST)

The following is the excerpt from a mail from Reliance.

You may be aware that our Flag international submarine cable is cut near Egypt. Flag has confirmed cable cut at 8.3 kms, from the Alexandria beach manhole, in a similar location to a reported SMW4 cut earlier on 30th morning. This outage has caused a major interruption in the international internet services and the IPLC services towards London & Newyork. We have an arrangement to protect our BW on SMW4 but unfortunately at this time even SMW4 is also cut and hence the protection is not operational.

We are talking to various carriers, for alternate BW and will keep you posted on the development. We will provide next update at 6 PM today.

We sincerely regret this inconvenience due to this force majeure.

Currently the network is still congested, and traffic is moving with difficulty. all ISP's are working on getting some other routes, and hopefully we should have restored connectivity by tomorrow.

GS