<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>The challenge with SMW3 is that the segment from about 200km south of Indonsia all the way to Singapore is in less than 60m of water depth (about 1,400km). Ideally cables are deeper than 2,000m of water depth away from anchors and long-line fisherman :)</div><div><br></div><div>The other challenge is that some sections of this route it is almost impossible to bury due to the ocean floor being rocky and not ideal for burial. Sometimes there is an alternate route, but it would add significant latency, something that people in 99% of circumstances prefer. The 1% of the time they don’t mind latency is when the cable is not functioning due to a shunt fault or a cut, which could have been avoided if they went the more safer, less commercial route :)</div><div><br></div><div>There is a history of intentional cable cut/theft in these waters by people initially interested in the perceived copper/raw materials. There is a notorious stretch between two (2) islands in which nearly all cables pass and due to the rock formations and depth these cables can’t be buried and are easily damaged either intentionally or otherwise. Despite the investment in education and armouring things still happen. An example can be found here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/06/29/indosat-spends-rp-10-billion-replacing-stolen-underwater-cable.html">http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/06/29/indosat-spends-rp-10-billion-replacing-stolen-underwater-cable.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also I think last time there was a combination of factors being a shunt/cut and a repeater “pop” needing two (2) permits to complete. Others on the list would have a better background as to what happened last time and what is happening this time. I will make some calls and get an ETA.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>[b]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Phill Proud <<a href="mailto:phill@proud.id.au">phill@proud.id.au</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, 2 December 2014 12:08 pm<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Nick Stallman <<a href="mailto:nick@agentpoint.com">nick@agentpoint.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [AusNOG] SEA-ME-WE 3 cut again<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">That's my understanding of the last delay, I assumed it might face similar issues this time. <div><br></div><div>Hopefully I'm just being a little too pessimistic!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Nick Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick@agentpoint.com" target="_blank">nick@agentpoint.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Wasn't the last cut's delay due to the repair boat not being able to
enter Indonesian waters?<br>
ITNews seems to think that won't be an issue any more and it should
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<div>On 02/12/14 11:36, Phill Proud wrote:<br>
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<div>Given the fault location it's hard to imagine it being
repaired much faster than the last cut.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:10 AM,
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Hi, FYI<br>
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SEA-ME-WE 3 was cut again this Sunday.<br>
Were seeing double the roundtrip that we saw when
compared the the outage last year July which took eight
weeks to repair.<br>
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Eric<br>
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As spoke over the phone, the increased in latency or RTD
is related to submarie cable fault [SMW3 S3.3(Perth -
BU)]. Path between Korea and Australia has been changed
to traversing KR <> JP <> AU/Sydney <>
AU/Perth, thus additional delay is expected.<br>
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The fault has been detected on 11/30 0339 UTC and is
located at about 1155 km from Singapre TUAS cable
station near tha Jakarta branching unit. Cable repair
schedule is to be advised once available.<br>
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