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Transatlantic Cable Fault Disrupts Internet In UK

Posted by timothy on from the electrify-the-atlantic dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Web traffic between the U.S. and Europe has been hit after an undersea cable developed a major fault on Tuesday. Because the TAT-14 cable network is shaped like a ring, it should be able to cope with one such failure -- but unfortunately the consortium that owns it hadn't fixed an earlier problem, just off the U.S. coast. Just shows how systems with build-in redundancy can still go badly wrong...."

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  1. Re:Oh well by reality-bytes · · Score: 1, Troll

    While there was a bit of a routing problem on Tuesday, we were doing fine without stateside connectivity.

    Contrary to popular belief, a section of "internet" severed from the states does not cease to function.

    In fact it may even function better ;)

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