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

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Thanks - I was about to post and ask what was going on. From the poor performance over the last 
week, it seems the cable has been out for about a week already! - I am on Optus GSM network and a 
friend who is on Telstra just phoned.
On 09/02/16 15:44, Scott Howard wrote:
> 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.
>>
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>> Chris Johnson
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