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Cable failure hits UK Internet traffic
News Unfortunately, a part of the cable near the US coast had already suffered a technical fault earlier this month, which meant there was no built-in redundancy to cope with Tuesday's failure. A major failure in one of the key communications links...
[November 26, 2003, 11:45]
Cable failure hits UK Internet traffic
Talkback As these type of incidents become more and more common it is important that organisations consider how critical their Internet connectivity and it's performance is to them. If Comapany X is running mission critical applications over the Internet...
[November 26, 2003, 15:37]
Cable failure hits UK Internet traffic
Talkback We should learn from these incidents
[December 3, 2003, 17:20]
Cable failure hits UK Internet traffic
Talkback Hopefully France Telecom corrects this problem
[December 3, 2003, 17:19]
Cable failure hits UK Internet traffic
Talkback Have there been any updates on this issue since the article was released? Has TAT-14 been restored?
[December 3, 2003, 15:28]
Undersea cables extremely vulnerable say analysts
Blog Of the four reported and confirmed failures, two are on cables in the Mediterranean, two in the Persian Gulf; at least one of these may be a power failure, not a cable cut, and hence the landing station is the likely culprit.
[February 7, 2008, 14:36]
Anchor-draggers cut Asia's Internet pipe
News In February, a China-US cable failure caused similar problems and less than a month later, another fault occurred on the same cable. Today, the cable failure momentarily affected voice traffic in Australia but was immediately restored by switching...
[September 20, 2001, 14:18]
Business continuity when the internet fails
Leader The failure of the undersea cables in the Mediterranean, disconnecting Egypt and points east from global services, illustrates just how far removed supercomputers can be from anything you can slip into your trousers.
[January 31, 2008, 16:31]
Ten crucial server attributes
Articles In this case, we have eight 10,000rpm SAS drives of 146GB each, configured for Raid 5 which helps protect against the consequences of a drive failure, and provides around 1TB of storage. This means that when a PSU fails — and moving parts such as...
[September 18, 2009, 16:15]
Cable & Wireless cuts go deeper
News The group's actual operating losses were £244m.The £6.5bn is an admission of failure and a write-off related to Cable & Wireless' grand spending spree, when the company was a late entrant to the internet boom years.
[June 5, 2003, 9:57]
Cable firms snub wireless broadband auction
News Following the failure of the 28GHz wireless broadband auction, the government is under some pressure to succeed with these 3.4GHz licences, but early indications are not too encouraging. Neither of the UK's cable companies are likely to take any...
[February 13, 2003, 16:18]
UK dial-up use 'down but not out'
Talkback Dialup services in the Uk will not be out for one simple reason - the failure of the cable and telcos to invest in the required connectivity. There are large areas of Britain, including urban zones where no cable servies, including broadband, are...
[January 17, 2004, 0:18]
Lost HMRC data 'worth £1.5bn to criminals'
News Cable also slammed the failure to use encryption technology to secure the data on the lost CDs and said most data being shipped around in government is not being encrypted. Liberal Democrat acting leader Vince Cable, speaking in the House of...
[November 29, 2007, 14:52]
Designing and Implementing a Virtual Private Network (VPN)
White Papers Furthermore, the combined VPN and dial-up solution is more robust than either is alone, each serving as a back-up for the other in the case of over-flow traffic or network failure. VPN also allows network administrators to take advantage of new...
[September 25, 2009, 3:05]
Redundancy in Serial-to-Ethernet Communications
White Papers It describes technologies from Digi International that eliminate single points of failure for networked devices while also enabling multiple host connections to a single port. This technology represented a paradigm shift - information which was...
[July 4, 2008, 1:00]
Roundup: Unmetered access - how it all went wrong
News Others think it would be better to wait for broadband and cable company Telewest has lost no time cashing in on the unmetered failure to lower the price of its broadband service. In the same week, broadband gets a boost as Telewest drops the price...
[August 11, 2000, 16:37]
Darling: Greater accountability key to data security
News Hammond said that there had been a systemic failure, and that the "responsibility for systemic failure lies at the top". Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said he hoped the chancellor "appreciates the damage to public...
[December 17, 2007, 17:23]
Jane Wakefield: Broadband Britain, please stand up
News Local loop unbundling, which has been interpreted by many as a last-ditch attempt to open competition given the failure of cable, is also going extremely badly. It is investing millions of pounds of its hard-earned money in broadband, the e...
[February 19, 2001, 15:28]
British public ignorant of broadband
News Cable was originally seen as a way of creating much-needed competition in both voice and Internet markets, but that strategy is now regarded by many as a failure. Despite government commitment to a broadband Britain, nearly three quarters of the...
[February 28, 2001, 15:26]
Public sector spending to boost rural broadband
News Over 30 percent of the UK population cannot get affordable broadband at home because of the limited coverage of BT's ADSL network and the cable networks of ntl and Telewest, and the current failure of local-loop unbundling.
[June 26, 2002, 17:04]
