Seacom could be down for a while

Difficult to really understand what the issues are, but it does seem strange that they are struggling like this.
 
ugh this is going to blow...2 weeks +. I'll need to make a plan for GoT...

See Andrew's comments here:

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/515572-Seacom-outage-update-from-CEO-Mark-Simpson/page3

Fivel said:
Difficult to really understand what the issues are, but it does seem strange that they are struggling like this.
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Ships trailing anchors. Doesn't matter how much armour you add to the cable...a couple tons worth of anchor will break it. The only option is to bury it...which isn't feasible really so they only do that near the coast & in shallow waters.
 
HavocXphere said:
Ships trailing anchors. Doesn't matter how much armour you add to the cable...a couple tons worth of anchor will break it. The only option is to bury it...which isn't feasible really so they only do that near the coast & in shallow waters.
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I get that, I was struggling to understand why it was taking so long to get the traffic rerouted. They couldn't seem to explain it themselves.
 
Fivel said:
I get that, I was struggling to understand why it was taking so long to get the traffic rerouted. They couldn't seem to explain it themselves.
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Routed where? There just isn't enough capacity to reroute all of it. Nobody is keeping an unused multi billion cable lying around just in case.

Also...there are like 4-5 cables down in the region so nobody has any spare capacity.
 
Interesting vid.
the ISP's cant really be blamed for the outage, and neither can seacom really be blamed. Although the route that the cable travels through in the mediterranean is an extreamly busy shipping lane, so these problems will probably never be at an end.
 
HavocXphere said:
Routed where? There just isn't enough capacity to reroute all of it. Nobody is keeping an unused multi billion cable lying around just in case.

Also...there are like 4-5 cables down in the region so nobody has any spare capacity.
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Ok but then the article is confusing, try then explain their redundancy strategy? Specifically this below:

The Seacom CEO said that his team’s focus remains on getting restoration services turned on. “However, this process is proving much more complex and taking longer than we were initially told by our suppliers and would have expected,” said Simpson.

“Whilst we believed we had secured adequate restoration capacity between Egypt and Europe yesterday (Friday), it has since eventuated during today that the physical capability to connect this capacity to our services in Europe is neither adequate nor stable enough.”

“In addition the capacity that may be available is in a long line of activations requested by many carriers (and requiring many hundreds of Gbps) and is not progressing at the rate we, or our customers, need.”
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