Because of the typhoon and the earthquake in Taiwan area recently,many undersea cables in that place were damaged.Those cables are the main pathways connecting North Asia,South East Asia,Europe and USA.

I’ve heard that Chinese users couldn’t login in MSN since yesterday.In Malaysia,we have to enjoy much slower international connections,especially to China and USA.

Telekom Malaysia released a piece of announcement several days ago explaining the current situation regarding to the disruptions on international link:

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that its consortium members have detected that a 2nd cable fault on Segment 7 of the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea cable network between China and Taiwan on Friday, 14 August 2009.

The fault follows three other service disruptions that recently hit the same cable network, affecting APCN2 Segment 7, between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and APCN2 Segment 1, which connects Singapore and Malaysia. The earlier faults on APCN2 Segment 1 were restored on Sunday, 16 August 2009.

As a result, customers using Internet services may continue to experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the US and Northern Asia. In addition, customers using other IP services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) over Internet and other critical business applications linked to the US and Northern Asia may experience some service degradation. To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been directed to alternate routes to ease the congestion.

Restoration works on the affected cables are already in progress. Full recovery of Internet services is expected to be on 10 September 2009. TM will make further announcements on the progress of the restoration works.

All right,we have to wait for at least some weeks to get improvements.I just wish that there won’t have any other disasters in the future.The Taiwanese have suffered too much!