Sub sea cable failure

[diegoa]

I spoken to level3 europe about latency problems in WoW EU since this month, they repled:

Good afternoon,
Please be advised that there is presently a sub sea cable failure which is affecting traffic round the level 3 IP network.
This occurred on the 29th June.
The cable is in the process of being repaired and we expect all traffic profiles to go back to normal within the next few days.

Many thanks

EU Support

Level 3 Communications

 

[Barfish88]

Really

 

[BrianStephan]

lol still doesnt explain a 300ms latency increase in 4 months

 

[Kuga]

lol still doesnt explain a 300ms latency increase in 4 months

This

 

[Mez]

Maybe a small problem just escalated over time ...hence the problem starting 3-4 months ago

 

[Blatman]

Thanks for your efforts to get to the bottom of the problem.

I can't even comment on the lag atm, since the cable break in Midrand I have zero net.

 

[WiT8litZ]

lol still doesnt explain a 300ms latency increase in 4 months

i blame our country/regulators/authorities/damn fools

 

[whatwhat]

Blame all you want, but what are you doing to make it better? Paying your monthly premium for a substandard service is just making one side happy, and it's definitely not you.

 

[wow4life]

My international connections have been really poor the last two days. Latency spikes = disconnects when using WiMax :/

 

[diegoa]

I got feedback from Level3 europe that today that expected date of subsea cable full restoration will be before 28 of july.

 

[Pure_Acid]

28 of july like WTF!!!!! ???

 

[diegoa]

Yup, usually can take up to a month to fix those sea cables

 

[wow4life]

The 2nd (i.e. after Seacomm) east coast cable being planned for next next year (EASSy) will be more reliable as it is beingconfigured as a two fibre pair collapsed ring.

Normally a cable cut between nodes would split the network into two. This wouldn't happen with a collapsed ring architecture as only one would be pruned from the network in the case of a cable cut in shallow water (as the ring integrity is built into the deepwater cables).

A deepwater cut would still result into a network split but this is unavoidable as a true ring architecture is not possible due to coastline geography.

 

[TofuMofu]

The 2nd (i.e. after Seacomm) east coast cable being planned for next next year (EASSy) will be more reliable as it is beingconfigured as a two fibre pair collapsed ring.

Normally a cable cut between nodes would split the network into two. This wouldn't happen with a collapsed ring architecture as only one would be pruned from the network in the case of a cable cut in shallow water (as the ring integrity is built into the deepwater cables).

A deepwater cut would still result into a network split but this is unavoidable as a true ring architecture is not possible due to coastline geography.

Whoooo, interesting Thanks!

 

[WiT8litZ]

Blame all you want, but what are you doing to make it better? Paying your monthly premium for a substandard service is just making one side happy, and it's definitely not you.

So what would you do?