Drop in connectivity

According to MWEB's network status page, both Seacom and WACS is down. Anything that isn't mirrored locally will either be super slow or not load at all.
 
SEACOM IS EXPERIENCING A CRITICAL OUTAGE – 15:00 GMT
SEACOM is experiencing multiple outages on the terrestrial network across Egypt. All our international connectivity through Egypt has been affected since 14:06GMT on the 21st January 2016.

Repair teams have been dispatched. SEACOM continues to monitor the situation closely and will provide necessary updates.
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http://seacom.mu/seacom-experiencing-critical-outage-1500-gmt/
 
The real question is how the heck is Afrihost managing to stay up much better than all the others.
 
Appears unrelated to Telkom, all our SAIX links are currently up, albeit many destinations now via EU instead of through 3rd parties via NAP locally.

EDIT: Appears not to affect Telkom/SAIX services
 
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Both failures appear to be terrestrial - the WACS failure is confirmed to be in the UK and the SEACOM failure is reported to be in Egypt. Subsea failures would have been much more worrying as they can take days, even weeks, to fix, whereas terrestrial failures are
generally addressed within hours.

I can confirm on the WACS side there was multiple fibre breaks in London, the redundant route also failed due to hardware.
 
paul5186 said:
Both failures appear to be terrestrial - the WACS failure is confirmed to be in the UK and the SEACOM failure is reported to be in Egypt. Subsea failures would have been much more worrying as they can take days, even weeks, to fix, whereas terrestrial failures are
generally addressed within hours.

I can confirm on the WACS side there was multiple fibre breaks in London, the redundant route also failed due to hardware.
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So basically were cut off from the rest of the world, with most connections down
 
Just Received the following notice from VOX :

Vox Telecom services are currently impacted as a result of a failure with the upstream network providers, SEACOM and WACS. Upstream provider engineers are currently attending.

update:
Break in SEACOM identified in Egypt. NO ETTR at present

WACS -
The patch tails at Global Switch have been tested & levels are within limit , however there is still a LOS at the first ILA from London on the main route (Gerards Cross).
The engineer is still busy on site. No ETTR as yet.

To note:
Traffic cannot be rerouted for Vox Telecom - there is no alternative
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moklet said:
So basically were cut off from the rest of the world, with most connections down
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LOL yeah it would appear like we are currently relying on whatever Seacom traffic can be routed through india, and maybe some SAT-2 and EAssy data.
 
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