Internet fully restored after international cable outage.
Internet traffic has been restored to 100% after the severed cable off the coast of Vietnam was reconnected, with the final repair work completed overnight on January 5th.
The AAG international undersea fiber optic cable management board announced that the broken section of the cable had been repaired by 10:30 PM on January 4th. Within the following 24 hours, Vietnamese telecommunications operators fully restored the capacity lost due to the AAG cable incident.
The issue was resolved much faster than expected. When the outage occurred, providers predicted it would take two months to fully fix. Last week, 70% of traffic was restored, and the parties hoped to complete the repair by January 9th.
On the afternoon of December 20, 2013, the AAG cable – the Vung Tau – Hong Kong segment – was severed, affecting 60% of internet traffic in Vietnam. With a total investment of approximately $560 million, the AAG cable is nearly 20,000 km long, starting in Malaysia (TM) and ending in the US (AT&T). The branch connecting to Vietnam is 314 km long, landing at Vung Tau, and currently has four participating members: FPT Telecom, VNPT, Viettel, and SPT. The fault location is approximately 278 km from the Vung Tau landing station.
To minimize the impact on users, FPT Telecom has used terrestrial cable routes to reroute traffic from the deactivated AAG cable. To date, the company has increased traffic capacity by 20% compared to before to better serve customer needs.
According to VnExpress
