Australia’s Internet Taking the Long Way Home: the Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC) Fault
At 6:12am AEST on 4 September, the Australia-Singapore Cable (ASC), a 4,600 km subsea link connecting Perth to Singapore via Christmas Island and Indonesia, went dark on its Perth-Singapore section. Wavelength and Ethernet services dropped out. Internet traffic that normally took the shortest, lowest-latency path between Australia and Asia suddenly had nowhere to go. Early … Read more