Having slow internet???
Posted on December 27, 2006 at 1:38 pm by cereal87
Christmas has jst over, campus still empty, life in campus seems slow and now the internet seems slow. What happened?
Taiwan had a 7.1 ritcher scale earthquake at around 3am malaysia time. Somehow it affected Asia Pacific Cable Network 2, Segment S7 or commonly known as APCN2, S7 to those internet geeks. Sadly enough this segment links malaysia, japan and hong kong to international. this is wat happened when we dont hv our own internet backbone. we buy bandwidth from other countries. we used to link to singapore. yes… the kiasus hv their own connection directly linked to the international backbone. but when malaysia represented by telekom malaysia join ventured with other companies in asia-pacific, this APSN2 thingie was borned. It was placed in taiwan and linked towards the international backbone. other countries that join ventured this project hv to connect to taiwan 1st although they may still keep their current links for backup. like malaysia still hv their links to singapore n indonesia. lucky enough. if not u cant even surf now.
OK… u ask, what is APCN2. APCN2 is the longest international seabed fibre cable network, 19,000km in total length, in the Asia-Pacific, linking China, Japan, Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, and onward to linking America, Europe and Australia.
this thingie is join ventured by major telecommunications companies, namely Advantel, Cable & Wireless Global Network, Cable&Wireless HKT, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, Concert, Global Network Services, Global One, Japan Telecom, KDD Corpe ration, Korea Telecom, KPN, Layer 2, MCI, WorldCom, Metromedia Giber Network Service, NTT Com, NCIC, OneLink Cable Network, PLDT, StarHub, SingTel, Taiwan Fixed Network, Teleglobe, Telekom Malaysia, Telstra and Williams Communications.
some may wonder why is it not put in malaysia, which is less prone to earthquake. simple answer, the cable will b costlier. u hv to pull the fibre cable all the way to the major backbone, the other part of the asia, america and europe. longer cables. mayb our location is near to australia. but to other parts 2 far mah.
remember, u get this news from me 1st. u can go to lowyat.net, tm.net website or jaring website or even other local newspaper website, they hvnt report it properly yet. they hvnt even tell its earthquake fault.
