{"id":38468,"date":"2012-05-25T10:07:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38468"},"modified":"2012-05-25T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T11:04:41","slug":"seacom-downtime-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38468-seacom-downtime-explained","title":{"rendered":"SEACOM downtime explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cable break on the <a title=\"SEACOM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227005-SEACOM\">SEACOM<\/a> system meant that many South African broadband users may have experienced a slowdown in international speeds on Friday morning (25 May 2012).<\/p>\n<p>According to a Cybersmart network notice, a break in East Africa on the TGN-EA cable system, which is used by SEACOM, was to blame for the latest problems. \u201cThe break is terrestrial and located in Egypt and is scheduled to be repaired by Egypt Telecoms,\u201d said <a title=\"Cybersmart\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1953-Cybersmart\">Cybersmart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MWEB\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20457-MWeb\">MWEB\u2019s<\/a> network notices confirmed the problems, saying that they are \u201ccurrently operating at reduced International capacity due to a SEACOM outage. Customer impact should be minimal,\u201d said MWEB.<\/p>\n<p>SEACOM said that they experienced a service affecting outage that started in the early hours of Friday, 25 May, between Abu Talat (Egypt) and Marseilles (France).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll SEACOM customer circuits are back up and stable. SEACOM will continue to monitor the situation and provide feedback as required,\u201d SEACOM said at around 10:00 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SEACOM network improvement\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/45870-seacom-network-improvement.html\"><strong>SEACOM network improvement<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WACS launches in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/12209\/wacs-launches-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>WACS launches in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrestrial cable break on SEACOM system causes slow international access to some customers; problems solved a few hours later, said SEACOM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":37074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1567,21,217,4524],"class_list":["post-38468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cybersmart","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38469,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468\/revisions\/38469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}