Internet fully restored after international cable break
Internet traffic was restored to 100% after the broken cable section off the coast of Vietnam was reconnected, and final repairs were completed on the night of January 5.
The AAG international submarine cable operator said that as of 10:30 p.m. on January 4, the broken cable section had been reconnected. Within the next 24 hours, Vietnamese telecommunications operators fully restored the capacity lost due to the AAG cable incident.
The problem was fixed much faster than expected. When it happened, providers predicted it would take two months to fully fix it. Last week, 70% of traffic was restored and the parties hope to have it fixed by January 9.
On the afternoon of December 20, 2013, the AAG cable - Vung Tau - Hong Kong segment was broken, affecting 60% of Internet traffic in Vietnam. With a total investment of about 560 million USD, AAG is nearly 20,000 km long, starting from Malaysia (TM) and ending in the US (AT&T). The branch to Vietnam is 314 km long, landing in Vung Tau and currently has 4 participating members including FPT Telecom, VNPT, Viettel and SPT. The incident location is about 278 km from the Vung Tau landing station.
To minimize the impact on users, FPT Telecom has used the land cable to forward the downed AAG traffic. To date, the company has increased the traffic by 20% compared to before to better serve the needs of customers.
According to VnExpress
