Comments on: Need for redundancy highlighted again http://lirneasia.net/2008/01/need-for-redundancy-highlighted-again/ a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dee http://lirneasia.net/2008/01/need-for-redundancy-highlighted-again/comment-page-1/#comment-9555 Dee Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:35:48 +0000 http://www.lirneasia.net/2008/01/need-for-redundancy-highlighted-again/#comment-9555 Reports about massive Internet disruptions are exaggerated. There was a drop in Internet speed briefly the day before. But Internet traffic has been quite effectively re-routed through other cables. VSNL & FLAG own about 40% of world's undersea bandwith. There is far more redunancy in India than in some of the South east asian countries where cable snaps resulted in Internet blackouts. Also, since Sri Lanka also relies on SEMEWE4 if acconts of massive disruptions were true, you folks wouldn't have Internet access either. Reports about massive Internet disruptions are exaggerated. There was a drop in Internet speed briefly the day before. But Internet traffic has been quite effectively re-routed through other cables. VSNL & FLAG own about 40% of world’s undersea bandwith. There is far more redunancy in India than in some of the South east asian countries where cable snaps resulted in Internet blackouts.

Also, since Sri Lanka also relies on SEMEWE4 if acconts of massive disruptions were true, you folks wouldn’t have Internet access either.

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