Fiber optic cable cuts cause internet woes for Pakistani users
The fiber optic cable connecting Singapore to Pakistan and Europe has been cut.
International: Fiber optic cable cuts cause internet woes for Pakistani users. According to sources, the submarine optical fiber cable has suffered five cuts, and it will take a month to fix it.
According to Pakistan Telecommunication (PTA) sources, internet service from the eastern direction has been affected due to the cutting of the optical fiber cable. Pakistani users are facing severe difficulties in browsing the Internet.
PTA sources claim that Pakistani users will continue to face difficulties during the evening hours.
Meanwhile, PTCL sources mention that traffic coming from the eastern direction is less than 10 percent, and hence internet traffic has been shifted to alternative sources.
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The origins of the Internet date back to research to enable time-sharing of computer resources and the development of packet switching in the 1960s. The set of rules (communication protocols) to enable internetworking on the Internet arose from research and development commissioned in the 1970s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense in collaboration with universities and researchers across the United States and in the United Kingdom and France. The ARPANET initially served as a backbone for the interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the United States to enable resource sharing. The funding of the National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial extensions, encouraged worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies and the merger of many networks using DARPA’s Internet protocol suite. The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s, as well as the advent of the World Wide Web,[7] marked the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet, and generated a sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to the network. Although the Internet was widely used by academia in the 1980s, the subsequent commercialization in the 1990s and beyond incorporated its services and technologies into virtually every aspect of modern life.