Japan earthquake induced submarine cable fault repair plans for domestic operators start

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Long Beach, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) March 11, 2011 -- March 12 message, by the earthquake northeast of Japan, China Telecom, part of the submarine cable failure; China Unicom, part of the international circuit is interrupted, increasing the damage; submarine cable leased partial disruption of China Mobile.

At 13:46 on March 11, the earthquake in the Tohoku region. Affected by China Telecom to North America, Japan, the Japan-US submarine cable, PC1 submarine in Japanese waters near the North Ibaraki failure. 11 at night, the direction of China Telecom to 105G of the Internet in North America and the 7G export green circuit interrupt circuit, but the voice service circuit is operating normally. It is reported that disruption of the Internet circuit bandwidth of total exports of China Telecom accounted for 13% of North America accounted for 22% of export bandwidth direction, the direction of the user access to Internet sites in North America some impact speed.

Meanwhile, China Unicom in the international business circuit, part of the United States and Canada accessible voice circuits affected by the direction of a total of 40E1 interruption, China Unicom, completed the evening of 11 route adjustments, unaffected voice; to the United States 24 * 2.5G Internet circuit direction interrupted exports have an impact on the Internet; to the direction of the circuit is not interrupted in Japan, but the surge in traffic caused connection rate drop.

In addition, China Shanghai International Mobile Internet direction of exports to North America, two international submarine cable leased by the earthquake in an interrupted, leading to the international business part of the congestion, but the voice service is normal. It is reported that 11 2-3 pm, China Mobile to Japan's international outgoing traffic increased 207% over the normal, try to call the number if more than 20 million times, up 945%; the cause of Japan's local network, connected to the system rate has dropped 50%. Outgoing traffic growth in the top five provinces of Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Liaoning and Zhejiang.

At present, China Telecom has launched emergency plans, will determine the submarine cable fault repair after the specific breakpoints; China Unicom is to develop programs, organize forces to restore the circuit; China Mobile has launched emergency plans, emergency dispatch and to ease the international business circuit.