Transworld to Get Increased (High) Latencies to Eastern Routes/Destinations: Planned Activity

SMW4 Consortium has conveyed the schedule of planned maintenance activity to replace a faulty repeater in SMW4 Segment S1.3 (Near Singapore) between (Thailand) and Melaka (Malaysia) during 12-16 Nov 2012.

As per Plan of Work, prior to the commencement of repeater replacement operation on 12 Nov 2012, power re-configuration will be carried out on 10 Nov 2012 at 1900UTC (1200 AM dated 11 November 2012) during which SMW4 Eastern traffic will remain down for 3-4 hours.

As per resource in the company, you may observe degraded services in peak hours during maintenance activity.

Activity Schedule:

Schedule Start: 12th  November, 2012 
Schedule End:   16th  Novermber,2012
Impact:            Increased (High) Latencies to eastern routes/Destinations only

Due to this traffic towards eastern countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan etc) will be affected with High latencies.

Update: 

As per Transworld their upstream service providers have urgent maintenance activity therefore there is a bit change in the planned activity.

Transworld:

Schedule Start   :              15^th November, 2012

Schedule End     :              20^th November, 2012

Pakistan Internet Exchange:

Schedule Start   :              13^th November, 2012

Schedule End     :              16^th November, 2012