The Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG), Vietnam’s lifeline undersea cable, broke down at 6:30 am on Tuesday at a spot 125 kilometers away from Hong Kong. The rupture has disrupted Internet connections from Vietnam to other countries, according to the Vietnam Posts and Communications Group (VNPT), a major Internet service provider in the Southeast Asian nation. The group said Internet services linked to overseas servers like Gmail, YouTube and Facebook would be affected to a certain extent. However, according to a number of Internet service providers, they have stored fallbacks for the cable failure, for they have been familiar with the situation. A representative from VNPT said to partly deal with the problem, it has rerouted international Internet traffic to other cable systems, which are safe and sound, and has been cooperating with its foreign partners to facilitate the Internet traffic volume related to servers outside the country. It has employed solutions which guarantee Internet service quality, ready to provide customers with information about the cable issue and give them prompt assistance. The time frame for restoring the cable has not been determined, according to an Internet service provider. Three of the important international cable systems crossing Vietnam are the Intra Asia (IA), the Asia-America Gateway (AAG), and the currently failing Asia-Pacific Gateway (APG). The last system, around 10,400 kilometers long, connects eight countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific, namely Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Japan, and South Korea. It can deliver a capacity of up to 54Tbps, the greatest of… [Read full story]
Internet speed in Vietnam has come to a snail’s pace for some users as one of the major undersea cable systems is suffering connection disruption, a service provider confirmed on Wednesday.
Connection was disrupted in the section of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) connecting the central city of Da Nang with the U.S., Japan and Hong Kong, at around 4:00 pm on Tuesday, a VNPT representative told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
“The incident is slowing down connection for overseas hosted services during peak hours, especially for users in central localities,” the source said.
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This is the second time the Asia America Gateway has been disrupted this year. Vietnam’s internet speed is likely to slow in the coming days following problems with the notorious cable that connects the country with the U.S., local media quoted sources as saying on Sunday. The incident took place late on Saturday, and details of when the cable will be fixed have not been provided. This is the second time that the Asia America Gateway (AAG) has been disrupted this year following several ruptures last year. The latest repair work on the AAG was only completed in late January…... [read more]
The incident took place late on February 18, and details of when the cable will be fixed have not been provided. This is the second time that the Asia America Gateway (AAG) has been disrupted this year following several ruptures last year. The latest repair work on the AAG was only completed in late January after it cut off on January 8. In early January, the AAG and two other internet cables, the Intra Asia (IA) and the newly launched Asia Pacific Gateway (APG), all experienced problems and were subsequently shut down. The APG was back up on January 23…... [read more]
Typhoon Nida is to blame this time. Vietnam’s internet speed is likely to slow down in the coming days after the submarine cable that connects the country with the U.S. broke again on Tuesday afternoon. According to Vietnam's internet providers, the Asia America Gateway (AAG) ruptured at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The AAG operation center said that Typhoon Nida, which has swept across southern China, had caused the damage, and bad weather is hampering maintenance work, In 2015 alone, the AAG ruptured three times, while in 2014 it went down twice. This year, the cable system has experienced problems in…... [read more]
The operator of an undersea cable system that provides Internet connectivity to Vietnam has found yet another break on the same cable section where a fracture is being repaired. Asia Gateway Pacific) submarine cable system said Monday. The new break is only 4km away from the part of the section S1I that was snapped on September 15. S1I connects the Vietnamese coastal city of Vung Tau and Hong Kong. The AAG operator said it will repair the second break immediately after finishing welding the first one. On Friday, a cable layer, a type of deep-sea vessel used to lay underwater…... [read more]
