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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedAsia Netcom shifts into high gear to restore online services following Taiwan earthquakes.(SUBMARINE)
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In the aftermath of the multiple earthquakes off the coast of Southern Taiwan on December 26, 2006, which resulted in major service outages and congestion of the Internet across the region, Asia Netcom successfully restored all of its customers' traffic along its EAC cable system on December 27 and continues to actively help the region get back online by allocating spare capacity to ISPs and third-party telecommunications carriers.
"We were able to quickly restore all services to our customers because of the resiliency of our network," said Wilfred Kwan, chief technology officer, Asia Netcom. "Leveraging the multi-ring architecture of our system, we were fortunate to have the ability to reroute traffic to other parts of the network and normalized services...
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