Subsea cable operator Seacom announced on Twitter today (14 October 2011) that they have restored all their business customers on alternate routes following an outage expected to extend into next week.
This includes commercial Internet service providers, according to Seacom’s tweet, which said that all such ISPs using Seacom capacity are no longer affected by the outage.
Seacom started to experience problems on Saturday, 8 October 2011, which it said was caused by a problem on a cable between Abu Talat in Egypt and Marseilles in France.
In an official statement from Seacom said that their initial estimates were that it would take 12 days to repair the cable, depending on weather conditions.
- Seacom reroutes business customers such as commercial ISPs
Mweb announced on 12 October 2011 that their services through Seacom were running at full capacity again.
Cybersmart posted on its website that their Seacom service was restored at 10:57 on 11 October 2011.
Openweb CEO Keoma Wright said that 99% of their supplier traffic has been restored. “We however were not severely affected due to the SAT3 backup in place on all our offerings,” Wright added.
At the time of writing the websites of Axxess and Afrihost still said that they were experiencing degraded ADSL service. Neither ISP provided feedback as to whether their Seacom capacity had been restored.
Article courtesy of MyBroadband – Seacom restored for commercial ISPs on alternate routes
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