MWEB - SEACOM Update

Would this maintainence be affecting Steam in any way?

Because I can't connect to it at all.
 
MWEB Operations said:
We’ve been notified by Seacom that due to adverse weather conditions the repairs to the undersea cable are going to take longer than originally expected. The work will only be completed some time tomorrow (27th of April). Our alternative international bandwidth is quite congested so we are shaping heavily on things like peer-to-peer. Thank you for your continued patience.

Regards
MWEB Ops
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What happened to the MWeb alternative route via AS6453 (Tata communications) that was working on Sunday? Did MWeb only buy 12 hours or something?

Edit: Let me guess, the business customers get priority and are using that bandwidth...
 
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Gordon_R said:
What happened to the MWeb alternative route via AS6453 (Tata communications) that was working on Sunday?
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Hi Gordon_R,

Still there, were just doing some more traffic rebalancing (e.g. intl outbound).

MWB.
 
Repair work on Mediterranean segment of SEA-ME-WE 4 cable may cause brief SEACOM network disturbance - 23 Apr 2010

SEACOM experienced an interruption in its network on 14 April 2010 which lasted around seven minutes as a result of a fault on the Mediterranean section of the SEA-ME-WE 4 submarine cable system, which SEACOM currently utilizes to connect to London.

SEA-ME-WE 4, which stretches from South East Asia to Europe via the Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East, is now scheduled to undergo repairs on Saturday 24 April 2010 to fix the affected fibre pair in the Mediterranean Sea. This process will be carried by a repair ship which has been deployed to the location of the fault where it will pick up the cable, cut it and bring it onboard to undergo the repair on the optic fibre before the cable is put back in the water. This will result in the power being shut down on the cable for the duration of the repair.

Whilst the disruptive portion of the repair process is expected to be minimal, the precise chronology and actual duration is unpredictable due to exogenous factors such as weather conditions.

SEACOM has been actively working with its clients to put in place suitable alternative channels that will ensure continuous availability during the planned repair work.

Enquiries:
Suveer Ramdhani
+27 83 680 1646
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Source: http://www.seacom.mu/news/news_details.asp?iID=129

Wonder what alternative channels they put in place?
 
phiber said:
I have no international access at all, so i think that is BULL ****.
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Take it up with your ISP. If they rely on Seacom, they should have made alternative plans, like squeezing their data through SAT3.
 
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MWEB Operations said:
We’ve been notified by Seacom that due to adverse weather conditions the repairs to the undersea cable are going to take longer than originally expected. The work will only be completed some time tomorrow (27th of April). Our alternative international bandwidth is quite congested so we are shaping heavily on things like peer-to-peer. Thank you for your continued patience.

Regards
MWEB Operations
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Based on the latest feedback we have received from Seacom this afternoon , it now seems likely that the repairs to their undersea cable will only be completed by Friday the 30th of April. The work is being severely hampered by poor weather conditions at sea. Whilst we have been able to secure alternative international bandwidth for the full duration of the repairs, as I stated previously there is some congestion on these links and it is affecting our service. Bandwidth-intensive applications such as peer-to-peer will therefore be de-prioritised until sufficient capacity once again becomes available.

We apologise for any inconvenience that this may be causing you and thank you for your patience during this time.

We will continue to monitor the situation on an ongoing basis and as and when we receive updates we will notify you via our Free The Web site and via our online outages noticeboard at http://www.mweb.co.za/helpcentre/NetworkStatusNotices/tabid/1765/Default.aspx

Kind regards
MWEB Operations
 
Thanks again Mweb for keeping us up-to-date. Other than p2p and such I really cant complain about the quality of service I currently have, I can at least still browse the web comfortably (especially considering the state of service with the other ISPs at the moment.)
 
Guys seem to be forgetting that this isn't just affecting South Africa... its affecting all of the East coast of Africa as well as a large portion of the Middle East.
 
Any news from IS regarding their backup strategy?
 
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