[IP] Quake cuts off much of Asia Internet
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brett Glass <brett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 28, 2006 10:10:45 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Quake cuts off much of Asia Internet
At 02:21 PM 12/27/2006, Richard Forno wrote:
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Taiwan on Tuesday
night, which
was followed by several smaller quakes in the region, apparently
damaged the
vast network of underwater cables that enables modern communication.
"The Internet capacity in Taiwan is about 40 percent now, so the
service is
jammed," said a spokesman for Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest phone
company on Tuesday.
The disruption was widespread, hitting China, Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan,
Singapore, Hong Kong and elsewhere, with knock-on effects as far
away as
Australia for companies whose Internet is routed through affected
areas.
Dave: IPers might be interested in knowing that, as a result of this
slowdown, we have already seen a noticeable decrease in the amount of
spam we've received -- much of which originates in Taiwan, China, and
South Korea. (The flow of spam from South America, Poland, Germany,
Italy, and American "zombie" machines -- the latter mostly on cable
modems and Verizon DSL or FIOS -- has, alas, continued unabated. But
the impact is still significant.)
Because more than 95% of the traffic we receive from the Asia-Pacific
region is spam, it occurs to me that if these countries made an
effort to
limit the amount of spam they generated, it might ameliorate or even
eliminate the slowdown while the fiber optic cables were repaired.
--Brett Glass, LARIAT.NET
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