Southern Cross failure near San Jose.

This has happened a few time now this year.

For the third time in three months, Southern Cross Cable is causing slow speeds for Australian broadband users.

ISPs affected:

• Optus
• Westnet
• iiNet
• Internode

Basically it’s going to make looking at international website slow. The current fault has been reported to be a line card in Calfornia.

A large fiber link has been cut on mainland USA, affecting Australian ISPs using Southern Cross for international bandwidth. The break could be affecting a number of ISPs due to its size and popularity. There is currently no ETA available for a repair time.

In 2001, bad luck and timing resulted in a complete outage of Southern Cross, due to a submarine fiber cut while the backup link was down for maintenance.