Nos ultimos dias a internet tem sido lenta devido a roptura dum cabo submarino que liga esta zona do mundo com a America e Europa. Isto tambem esta’ afectando as chamadas internacionais dificeis de estabelecer e que se interropem com facilidade.
Infelismente nada se pode fazer a nao ser aguardar que o cabo danificado seja substituido rapidamente. Este acontecimento foi refereciado nos servicos de noticias da BBC como atesta o documento abaixo, distribuido no “job” para aliviar a malta. Alias, o site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption e’ uma boa referencia de outros eventos semelhantes.
Severed cable disrupts web access
Internet and phone communications between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have been seriously disrupted after submarine cables were severed. It is thought the FLAG FEA, SMW4, and SMW3 lines, near the Alexandria cable station in Egypt, have all been cut. A fault was also reported on the GO submarine cable 130km off Sicily.
Experts warned that it may be days before the fault is fixed and said the knock on effect could have serious repercussions on regional economies. Jonathan Wright - director of wholesale products at Interoute which manages part of the optical fibre network - told the BBC that the effects of the break would be felt for many days. The cause of the break is as yet unknown, although some seismic activity was reported near Malta shortly before the cut was detected.
The main damage through is to the four submarine cables running across the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal. It is thought that 65% of traffic to India was down, while services to Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Taiwan and Pakistan have also been severely affected. Earlier this year, the same line was damaged in the same area - off the Egyptian coast - although only two lines were snapped then.
Thesedamaged circuits account for 90% of the traffic and we're going to see more international phone calls dropping and a huge degradation in the quality of local internet.
