internet was dying

Day / Date : Wednesday / 27 December 2006

Time : 01:20

International Link to / Via : AT&T KDDI,Japan Telecom, CHT TWGate
Causes : Taiwan EarthQuake
resulting Submarine Cable Problem

Impact : International Link
Quality Degradation

that was a disaster for all we here in indonesia, we can't access the international link for about 5 hour. after 5 hour we can conected but the link is to slow because only 1 backbone and it's only 4 Meg bandwidth. but then after about 36 hour, it mean that the day is thursday at 1 pm the connection goes normal again. after i checked only "us" (melsa) that can do this. cause were connect through ntt (using AJC=asian japan cable) and WSM (using france telecom).
the cable in taiwan still fixed, hope it can be normal soon.