Asia’s Internet Cables Jostled by Typhoon
September 15th, 2009
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Although Typhoon Morakat played havoc with some fiber-optic communication cables under the sea, loss of Internet and phone services in Taiwan and the Philippines was limited and is expected to be fully restored on Friday. Built-in redundancies allowed service providers to reroute traffic through unaffected networks. Seabed movements believed caused by Typhoon Morakat damaged seven undersea …
