ISPs Scramble After Fault with Link to US

Australians should not be experiencing problems accessing US Web sites despite network issues connecting the country to the USA, according to Southern Cross Cable Network. The owner of 30,000 kilometres of cable network linking Australia and New Zealand to the US, Southern Cross said a hardware failure in its network located in California — not the undersea cable itself — was the cause of the downtime. However, traffic was re-routed to its secondary line this morning as soon as the failure was detected