[LINK] TPG international fibre cable fault - where was that break again?

[Scott Howard]

PPC1 is around 6,900km long, so the fault is over 2,300km from Sydney - not
700km.  It's also somewhere in the Pacific ocean, not just down the road
from SeaWorld...

The major cause for the delay in fixing it is the fact that the ship that
is normally on standby for repairs like this is currently in Geelong being
fitout to repair the Basslink cable that broke several weeks ago.

  Scott
On Feb 8, 2016 7:26 PM, "Chris Johnson" <Chris.Johnson at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> Australia has a broken international cable. From the TPG website  "The
> TPG Network Operations Centre received multiple alarms for the PPC-1
> cable system between Sydney and Guam. The alarms indicated that a
> submarine line card had lost its payload. "
> [I guess this is jargon for something like a broken connection]
>
> "A Network Incident ticket was created and the issue was immediately
> escalated to the PPC-1 transmission engineering team."
> Isn't it nice to be told that they have a standard way of handling
> faults by escalating incident tickets - but it isn't really important
> information.
> The fault has been located:
> "The Transmission engineering team, in collaboration with
> http://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from/Guam/to/Sydneyinfrastructure
> vendors, completed preliminary investigations and have found a fibre
> fault approximately 4,590 kilometres from Guam."
> That sounds serious. It's a long way away. "Estimated restoration:
> Monday 7 March." (30 days+)
> But: the distance from Sydney to Guam? approximately 5,304 km (in a
> straight line) [http://www.distancefromto.net/distance-from/Guam/to/Sydney
> ].
> So the fault is actually about 714 km from Sydney. That's closer than
> the Gold Coast! If that had been announced it would sound easier to fix
> than the distance of 4590 km from Guam...  is this just a PR cover
> story, it's a long way away so it's reasonable to expect to take a month
> to fix it?
> It's probably a reasonable delay anyway - need to get hold of a cable
> repair ship, they don't grow on palm trees - but let's have more
> carefully thought information.
>
> --
> Chris Johnson
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