9 Şubat 2010 saat 23'te Rapidswitch ingiltere dc de fiber hattını kesmişler. Orjinal duyuru, ingilizce bilen ve avrupa ile iş yapmak isteyenlerin ilgisini çekebilir.

Dear Engin,

At approximately 9pm on 9th February 2010 we were alerted to a failure of one of our links to London from our Maidenhead data centre. All traffic was immediately re-routed over to the secondary link, and our backup systems kicked in fully.

Further investigation showed that a manhole less than 1km from our Maidenhead data centre had been broken into and the fibre physically cut. This is a criminal act and we took immediate steps to involve our fibre supplier.

As we were unsure of the situations around whether this criminal act was targeting RapidSwitch, we took the decision not to issue an "At Risk" notification, potentially further informing the criminal that they had successfully attacked one of our redundant connections to London.

The fibre was repaired within 24 hours. During the repairs it became apparent that other fibres in the local vicinity had been cut, these fibres having nothing to do with RapidSwitch. It seems likely that the cause of this was thieves cutting the cables to see if they were copper, as there is a market for stolen copper cable. We are therefore satisfied this act did not target RapidSwitch specifically.

We are in the process of installing additional physical security barriers in the manholes to prevent an act like this happening again.

During the period where one of our data centre links was down, all connectivity was routed over our diverse redundant link that was not affected.

Assuring you of the best service at all times.

RapidSwitch
http://www.rapidswitch.com/