The Hindu Business Line : Cable breakdown: VSNL restores connectivity in 24 hours

Bangalore, Feb. 3 VSNL on Saturday announced that the company has restored significantly the IP connectivity into the MENA region within 24 hours of the Egypt cable breakdown on Thursday.

In the case of India too, services were largely restored within 24 hours of the cable cut by diverting traffic through the TIC and SEA-ME-WE 3 cables.

On January 30, the SEA-ME-WE 4 and other undersea cables were severed off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. These cables serve as the principal Internet connections between West Asia and westward on to Europe and North America. They also connect the Indian subcontinent and South-East Asia. The impact of the cut cables resulted in degraded Internet service to and from West Asia.

VSNL has an Internet backbone that circles the world allowing both eastward and westward connectivity from all regions, a major differentiator among carriers. This allows VSNL to leverage its ownership in a vast array of diverse undersea and terrestrial cables assets.

Mr Radwan Mousalli, Managing Director - MENA, VSNL, said, “Our cable layout and design allowed us to survive a double cable failure as well as develop enough capacity eastward across the Pacific for the internet to reach North America and Europe.”

Although many other carriers in the region lost service completely, VSNL was able to restore majority of their West Asia customer’s traffic utilising the SEA-ME-WE 3, SEA-ME-WE 4 eastbound and TIC cable following the cut.

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