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Taiwan earthquake damages communication lines
Four submarine cables used by Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) for international voice and data communications were damaged by a large earthquake off the coast of southern Taiwan on December 26, disrupting service to the US, Japan, China and Southeast Asian countries, according to CHT.The earthquake registered a magnitude 6.7 on the Ritcher scale in Taiwan and was followed by strong aftershocks.
The damaged lines caused voice transmission capacity to be reduced by 60% to the US, by 90% to Japan, by 85% to both China and Vietnam, and 98% or more to other countries in Southeast Asia, CHT indicated. The reduction in data communication capacity was less, averaging 70%, CHT added.
It will take two to three weeks to repair the four submarine cables, CHT said. For the time being, CHT plans to temporarily use other lines for service, including a satellite system that is jointly invested by CHT and Singapore Telecom, CHT pointed out.
Quake damages CHT communication lines
What is convergence anyway?
Devices, networks, services, voice, data, media, entertainment - convergence can refer to any one of these areas and is so often used its meaning can be lost. Stewart Baines explains the term's numerous definitions.It was perhaps Nicholas Negroponte who first identified convergence. Founding the MIT Media Lab in the late 1970s he foresaw the coming together of the worlds of IT, television and movies, and print and publishing.
Decades later and convergence is all around us: in the boardroom, on the stock market, over the air and in your pocket. It's a terms used possibly too frequently and frivolously, and now has lost its prophetic meaning. Convergence can be stuck like a label on any product or service that a vendor chooses.
So just what is convergence in the technology industry?
Seventy-one per cent recognise it as the delivery of voice, video and data across all networks. Half of them think it also refers to the integration of fixed and mobile solutions. Fifty per cent again believe convergence relates to a device that provides all fixed and mobile voice and data services on a single handset.
