Bangladesh suffers internet disruption after cut cable - Polidicks

[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18366007#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa[/URL] [QUOTE][B]Internet users in Bangladesh are facing major disruption to their service after a submarine cable was cut.[/B] The accident affected the SEA-ME-WE 4 optical fibre system that runs from France to Malaysia. The accident occurred earlier this week about 60km (40 miles) from Singapore's coast. India, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore also rely on the section of cable involved but have been able to route traffic via other connections. [B]"Bangladesh does not have an alternative submarine cable or any other connection,"[/B] said Monwar Hossain, managing director of the Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company which operates the country's segment of the network. [B]He could not explain what had caused the damage.[/B] The firm said the east segment of the cable was out of operation, forcing it to send all data through the remaining west segment. [B] Slow access [/B] About 5% of Bangladesh's population of 165 million citizens have access to broadband internet. Local reports suggest that firms are experiencing very slow connections causing problems for internet-based phone calls and email. "Work at the garment factories and outsourcing firms have also been disrupted due to the slow connection," said Akhtaruzzaman Monju, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of Bangladesh. Users have been told that it could take until next week to repair the connection. Bangladesh aims to secure an alternative connection in 2014 via a new network named SEA-ME-WE 5 which will use 100 Gbps (gigabit per second) technology - ten times faster than the current system. [/QUOTE]

10Gbps? I feel bad for them :(

About 5% of Bangladesh's population of 165 million citizens have access to broadband internet. That's why they all immigrate to europe. Any sane person would do the same.

Sweet Christ, that's how fragile our internet is?

[QUOTE=Zambies!;36279255]Sweet Christ, that's how fragile our internet is?[/QUOTE] pretty much yeah

That's kinda sad how an entire country is working off 10-20gbit/s when I can buy a 10gbit/s dedicated server in france for a few hundred bucks a month.

[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;36279343]pretty much yeah[/QUOTE] Anything from a ship anchor to an undersea mudslide can wreak havoc on the cable network that spans the globe. Words really can't describe how easy it really is to knock out global communications.

If you ever really want to fuck up the internet, just cut a dozen or so of these cables. It doesn't take many cuts to overwhelm the remaining cables with diverted traffic. It's difficult and expensive to repair cables or run new ones, so multiple breaks could screw up the whole system for a long period of time. Undersea cables carry basically all of the communications traffic for the planet, and there aren't very many of them. If Al Qaeda were smart they'd invest in ROVs instead of IEDs.

Topher rated that useful because he's al qaeda

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;36281074]If you ever really want to fuck up the internet, just cut a dozen or so of these cables. It doesn't take many cuts to overwhelm the remaining cables with diverted traffic. It's difficult and expensive to repair cables or run new ones, so multiple breaks could screw up the whole system for a long period of time. Undersea cables carry basically all of the communications traffic for the planet, and there aren't very many of them. If Al Qaeda were smart they'd invest in ROVs instead of IEDs.[/QUOTE] Not even a dozen. A lot of these lines are terabit+, breaking even one will cause massive disruptions.

[QUOTE=Kabstrac;36281178]Thats yer problem right der: Al Qaeda arent very smart.[/QUOTE] They managed to plan and execute an operation that took out two principal buildings in New York and disrupted the entire United States for quite some time. I think they're plenty smart.

[QUOTE=Maloof?;36282359]They managed to plan and execute an operation that took out two principal buildings in New York and disrupted the entire United States for quite some time. I think they're plenty smart.[/QUOTE] And proceeded to immediately fuck off and never leave their country again.

So that's why my internet is slightly slower today. Hmmh. They better fix it fast, my french porn is downloading at speeds slower than usual.

Woah i didnt know theres 165 million people living in bangladesh

[QUOTE=winsanity;36282287]Not even a dozen. A lot of these lines are terabit+, breaking even one will cause massive disruptions.[/QUOTE] No. You hear a couple of stories a year about the ones in the Atlantic getting cut. Also: [url]http://www.submarinecablemap.com/[/url]

This happened in the Middle-East once. God fucking damn, the worst month ever for trying to use the internet. Internet is usually piss-poor quality in the Middle-East (ie it's slow enough as it is) but an incident happened where some cargo ship dropped anchor on one of the cables and severed it. Literally the shittest summer ever, because during the day it's too hot to go out so I'd spend all day watching tv (which is generally boring) and waiting for the evening to come so I can go out. Internet is so fragile :(

I remember a story where a Georgian woman cut the entire country's Internet access by accidentally cutting the cable while gardening.

[QUOTE=MaddaCheeb;36281117]Topher rated that useful because he's al qaeda[/QUOTE] Gitmo anyone? :v: Also, another question I have: What do they do with the severed bits of cable? Do they reel them back in from each end or something, fix them up to reuse them? Or are the seafloors of the world completely covered in a godawful tangled mess of cabling?