After the two cable were cut under the Mediterranean Sea, disrupting Web access across a wide swath of the Asia and the Middle East, India’s lucrative outsourcing industry contended with the Internet slowdowns and outages. The disruption cost India half its bandwish, while the larger companies with the sophisticated backups appeared equipped to handle the situation, smaller firms they could lose business if full Internet access was not quickly restored. The Internet is their main business tool, most of their work consultation with the overseas customers. The firms business, definitely be affected if the problem persisted. The outage also raised questions about the systems vulnerability.
They could have a massive impact on the businesses. The large scale disruptions are rare but not unknown. The East Asia suffered nearly two months of the outages and slow service after an earthquake damaged undersea cables near Taiwan in 2006. The Mediterranean Sea cables which lie north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria, snapped as the work day was ending in India. The impact was not immediately apparent there but it was in the Middle Eastern Countries. The outages slowed traffic on the Dubai’s stock exchange and left officials scrambling to reroute traffic to satellites and through Asia.
By the 75 percent, the Internet Service Providers Association of the India said that the country had lost half its bandwish and the telegeography. A US research group that tracks submarine cables said that the disruption reduced the capacity on the route from the Mideast to Europe. The bad weather stymied initial attempts to reach the cables. A top Egyptian telecommunications official said that it could take a week to repair the damage one workers arrive at the site. The official said that it would not be known what is the caused that the damage until the workers reached the area though the rumors suggested a ship’s anchor to blame. The official in the Egypt Ministry of the Communications and Information Technology asked to be identifies because people was not authorized to speak to the media.
From the outsourcing, while the snapped cables caused problems in many countries, the loss of the Internet access was potentially disastrous for the India. The India had built up massive amo9unts of bandwish in the recent years and it would likely handle the situation without enduring the major economic losses but the situation would be disruptive. For the smaller companies that depend on teh local Internet services providers and the lack sophisticated backup systems.
There was also concern that the disruption could keep millions of the South Asians working in the Gulf from sending the money home. The South Asians do everything from the constructions to caring for the children of the well-off are paid little by local standards but their is an often a lifeline for the poor families back in India.
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