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Asia's net knocked out
Sitting here trying to Skype with my girlfriend who's currently in Asia.. but the connections is rubbish, so I go to Google News to find out what happened, and found this article:
Earthquake knocks out Asian communications
The earthquake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, occurred off the southern coastline of Taiwan on Tuesday night. As well as shaking buildings across Taiwan, the quake damaged a major underwater communications link called the Asia Pacific cable network 2 submarine cable (APCN2).
AdvertisementAPCN2 is a ring that connects China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is linked to Europe and the US by other ultra high-speed connections.
Scary shit, eh?
Makes you think how vulnerable our technology world actually is.
I just hope they get it patched together, so I can Skype with Asia again :-)
Update 1: Globeandmail.com has a long article about the earthquake
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