ust got confirmation. There is submarine cable cut either on APCN2 or EAC.

A suspected cable cut near China has resulted in packet loss to multiple destinations. This has been detected since 12-Aug--2009 at about 1155Hrs Local Time.

source: Damage (2009)

A cut in the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea submarine cable crippled connection speeds for users in the Asia-Pacific region on Wednesday, particularly in Singapore and the Philippines.
Users were sending updates to local forums and Twitter, complaining of slow connection speeds to sites hosted outside of the region.
According to a notice sent by Malaysian telco, TM Net, the cable fault was traced to segment 7 of the APCN2, which stretches between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan. TM Net traced the outage to Typhoon Morakot, which hit the region over the weekend.
Additionally, segment 1 of the APCN2 is also currently under repair. Repairs on segment 7 are expected to commence after work on segment 1 is completed.
Internet connection speeds are expected to return to normal late evening Aug. 13, according to the advisory.
Singapore operator, SingTel, confirmed the cable fault in an e-mail to ZDNet Asia, saying that customers can expect to face high latency as a result. It added that its STIX (SingTel Internet Exchange) Internet backbone provider is working on rectifying the issue.
A status update posted on InternetTrafficReport.com showed SingTel's Singapore gateway registered a score of only 34 points, compared to the global average "health" of network connections, which was 86 points as at 3pm Singapore time on Wednesday.
The site first started registering increased response time and packet loss in Singapore at 8pm Tuesday evening.
Back in 2006, the APCN2 was taken out by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan. Internet access was reportedly badly disrupted and halted in some parts of Asia after the quake.


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Asia: APCN2 sea cable failure
APCN2 segment 7 (Tanshui - Shantou) had just experienced cable fault at 02:45UTC on Aug 12 09. Together with the APCN2 Segment 1 which is under repair, certain amount of traffic to Singapore are down. Cable ship Asean Restorer is now commencing the initial joint of the 2nd fault. The repair will only be completed on 13-August late evening if everything goes smooth.

Reason of outage :

Under investigation by APCN2 NOC

Current status:

The related cable stations are requested to check their equipment currently.

Please be advised that higher impact by double fault on APCN2 S7 today and APCN2 S1 earlier.

For APCN2 S1, cable ship Asean Restorer is now commencing the initial joint. The repair will only be completed on 13-August late evening if everything goes smooth. Situation might be improved after the APCN2 S1 is fixed.