Submarine cable incident record
Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia cable incident — Confirmed — 2022-05-06
Coral Sea shunt-fault repairs are deferred again; a separate recent outage was caused by DataCo node equipment.
Confirmed
- Public classification
- Confirmed
- Affected cable or system
- Confirmed regional incident; no cable was deterministically attributed
- Affected countries
- Papua New Guinea
- Region
- Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia
- Network state
- Network signal stale
- Physical state
- Physical fault confirmed by report
Lifecycle
- Occurred:
- Network record became stale: — physical state unchanged.
Original supporting evidence
- the dere3rral also extends the existence of the shung fault and its associated risk of it escalating to affect service quality.
- a shunt fault was detected in early 221 posing a risk on the ongoing smooth operation of the cable system.
Public-network measurements can support a Suspected record but cannot prove a physical cable fault or repair. Network recovery can result from rerouting and does not establish physical repair. Confirm operational decisions with the cable owner or carrier.