{"id":452,"date":"2008-01-31T21:31:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/67c86283b2dd29ad7cc1eb9c23f51a76"},"modified":"2008-01-31T21:31:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T21:31:12","slug":"internet-failure-hits-two-continents-undersea-cables-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Internet failure hits two continents – undersea cables damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"

High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope. Industry experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage.<\/p>\n

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The two cables damaged are FLAG Telecom's FLAG Europe-Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4, a cable owned by a consortium of more than a dozen telecommunications companies, Beckert said. He added the options while those cables are repaired were re-routing traffic around the globe or using an older undamaged cable that has less capacity — both of which would cause usage delays. Kuwait's Ministry of Communications said the problem could take two weeks to solve, according to a statement carried by the state news agency, KUNA. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope. Industry experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage.<\/p>\n

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The two cables damaged are FLAG Telecom's FLAG Europe-Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4, a cable owned by a consortium of more than a dozen telecommunications companies, Beckert said. He added the options while those cables are repaired were re-routing traffic around the globe or using an older undamaged cable that has less capacity — both of which would cause usage delays. Kuwait's Ministry of Communications said the problem could take two weeks to solve, according to a statement carried by the state news agency, KUNA. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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