http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/27/internet-down-in-asia-pacific-after-earthquakes-in-taiwan/ Living Digitally and Electronically Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:44:35 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/27/internet-down-in-asia-pacific-after-earthquakes-in-taiwan/comment-page-1/#comment-76414 In my opinion » Blog Archive » Without internet Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:24:05 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/27/internet-down-in-asia-pacific-after-earthquakes-in-taiwan/#comment-76414 [...] As pointed out on mydigitallife it’s still weird and hard to understand why major telecommunications traffic has been dependent on cables around Taiwan, an earthquake prone area, and without any fall back or parallel redundancy links that can be used in short notice during emergency. I hope the telecom companies will learn some lessons from the weaknesses exposed in the system by the natural disaster and focus more on alternative routes and back up systems. [...] [...] As pointed out on mydigitallife it’s still weird and hard to understand why major telecommunications traffic has been dependent on cables around Taiwan, an earthquake prone area, and without any fall back or parallel redundancy links that can be used in short notice during emergency. I hope the telecom companies will learn some lessons from the weaknesses exposed in the system by the natural disaster and focus more on alternative routes and back up systems. [...]

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