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    Global communication feels after-effects of Taiwan quake

    As the aftershocks from a massive (6.7) quake off Taiwan's southern coast began to subside, the resulting damage was beginning to show as a significant performance drop in the world's communications networks.
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    Just wondering what kind of catastrophe would be required to have a similar impact on the UK's network

    I guess Post Office Tower (or whatever the young folk are calling it these days) would need to suffer a physical collapse

    Must be hard for the traders in Hong Kong to know that an incident over 500 miles away can take their network out...

    ...pretty difficult to plan effectively against that kind of issue

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    BTW: Just noticed that Bloomberg do not appear to think it is news when their own news stops...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bania View Post
    Just wondering what kind of catastrophe would be required to have a similar impact on the UK's network

    I guess Post Office Tower (or whatever the young folk are calling it these days) would need to suffer a physical collapse

    Must be hard for the traders in Hong Kong to know that an incident over 500 miles away can take their network out...

    ...pretty difficult to plan effectively against that kind of issue
    Take our LINX or Telehouse and you will hurt comms between Europe and the USA/UK massively.

    Most UK ISPs go via it - so pain always comes that way.

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