India: Outsourcing Disrupted Due to Cut Undersea Cables
FOXNews.com has picked up an Associated Press story that Wednesday, January 30th, two undersea cables were cut resulting in a huge interruption to India’s bandwidth. The Internet Service Providers' Association of India reported that “the country had lost half its bandwidth.” The cut cables, which lie in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, first affected the Middle East, including the Dubai Stock Exchange. The slowdowns and outages quickly spread through the Persian Gulf States, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. Customer Service call centers located in India were severely impacted as engineers attempted to reroute the traffic through satellites and cables in Asia. As of now the cause of the cuts is unknown. It is estimated that repairs to the cut cables could take up to a week.
