For those working with backbone providers. The internet is an utter joke and its on the edge of insanity that corporations put such trust in it. It makes CDO loans look sane.
Whats wrong you may ask?
Usually within 1 country. The internet is or can be rather controlled. And even if 2 telcos get mad at one another. The goverment could fix it instantly.
Plus again the infrastructure is much better.
However when this happens between 2 international telcos it goes horrible wrong. Cogent vs Telia is a nice example here. Its basicly a mudfight between 2 companies. And either there is no route at all. Or you could potentially have to cross the atlantic or something worse. I seen both 2 US telcos and 2 european telcos where it was crossing europe and USA to get back. 10-30ms becomes 100-150ms. All due to lack of peerings.
Next is country to country infrastructure. Specially overseas. Seacables can take days at best or easily weeks or months to be repaired.
Then mix it with outsourcing and globalization. These cables also carries phones and such. Imagine big major companies, HP, Dell, Lenovo, IBM etc without a callcenter because some line to Pakistan or India is broken.
Saudi Arabia: 55% out of service
Djibouti: 71% out of service
Egypt: 52% out of service
United Arab Emirates: 68% out of service
India: 82% out of service
Lebanon: 16% out of service
Malaysia: 42% out of service
Maldives: 100% out of service (Nice Intranet!)
Pakistan: 51% out of service
Qatar: 73% out of service
Syria: 36% out of service
Taiwan: 39% out of service
Yemen: 38% out of service
Zambia: 62% out of service
Plus ofcourse we have some BGP announcements that can go horrible wrong. The internet works fine most of the time. But its actually a fragile card house.
France Telecom immediately alerted one of the two maintenance boats based in the Mediterranean area, the “Raymond Croze”. This France Telecom Marine cable ship based at Seyne-sur-Mer has received its mobilization order early this afternoon and will cast off tonight at 3:00 am with 20 kilometers spare cable on board. It should be on location on Monday morning for a relief mission.
Priority will be given to the recovery of the Sea Me We4 cable, then on the Sea Me We3.
By December 25th, Sea Me We4 could be operating. By December 31st, the situation should be back to normal.
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