MWEB - SEACOM Update

ToxicBunny said:
Seacom did not fail in anything... Are you all unable to comprehend BASIC English by any chance?.. The repairs are being done on Sea-Me-We-4... which is a completely DIFFERENT fscking cable.

Oh and just as a btw, what exactly would checking weather conditions do?.. they need to repair the cable as soon as possible.
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Well it was 12 30 am, I thought rough seas were delaying the process, did someone not check the weather and wind conditions before they plan to take a ship out to sea. I guessed if the repair could wait from the 15th when the break occured they could delay it for a week. was i wrong?
 
Yea i know its not the actual seacom cable that we will use after the world cup, but at that time i was too lazy to type in the correct name. i wonder how much abuse mweb call centre staff recieved from the public during this week.
 
If we are not using the ACTUAL seacom cable after the world cup then what will we use?
 
ToxicBunny said:
If we are not using the ACTUAL seacom cable after the world cup then what will we use?
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It should read its not the actual seacom cable that we will use after the world cup that is currently broken,

its not a good day for me to post today,
 
schumi said:
Yea i know its not the actual seacom cable that we will use after the world cup, but at that time i was too lazy to type in the correct name. i wonder how much abuse mweb call centre staff recieved from the public during this week.
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:confused:
 
Nah I meant more about the thing about there being other cables in the med that are receiving repair, which delayed the SEA ME WE 4 repairs. So it wasn't their fault they couldn't start till the 25th. Why its taking so long, I have no idea. Maybe the weather is bad, and they are just working for short periods when there is a lull. Maybe they had a small window of opportunity to do the repair with the bad weather and all, and for some reason they overshot their chance, or weather changed earlier than expected, and they ended up having to return to port while awaiting better weather. I really don't know, there doesn't seem to be any info on that. Though I don't think this is a quick job either way, repairs on fiber optic is damn complex.

And yeah none of this has been explained too well by anyone. In the end wiki was the only good source of info I found. There are still people coming on here every couple of hours complaining about shaping, the call centers must have just shut down and taken the weekend off by now lol.
 
For those who are more visual... here is the cable that is experiencing the fault. Apparently the actual fault is near Italy.

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It could be that there are more damage to the cable/repeaters than originally anticipated and that they have to get more replacements. That seems like the only reasonable explanation for such a long repair time in the 1st world.
 
synapseZA said:
It could be that there are more damage to the cable/repeaters than originally anticipated and that they have to get more replacements. That seems like the only reasonable explanation for such a long repair time in the 1st world.
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What source did you get for this?

ToxicBunny said:
If we are not using the ACTUAL seacom cable after the world cup then what will we use?
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Here is an article that states that 5 new Middle East cables are due to come online in 2010:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100426_worlds_critical_infrastructure/

Another article shows the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable chart, and suggests that 2 of the Middle East cables (bandwidth chart included) will go online in May 2010:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...cable-fault-cripples-middle-east-internet.ars
 
Gordon_R said:
What source did you get for this?
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synapseZA said:
It could be that there are more damage to the cable/repeaters than originally anticipated and that they have to get more replacements. That seems like the only reasonable explanation for such a long repair time in the 1st world.
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No source - it was speculation hence "It could be that..." :)
 
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Gordon_R said:
What source did you get for this?



Here is an article that states that 5 new Middle East cables are due to come online in 2010:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100426_worlds_critical_infrastructure/

Another article shows the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable chart, and suggests that 2 of the Middle East cables (bandwidth chart included) will go online in May 2010:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...cable-fault-cripples-middle-east-internet.ars
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Yeah I know that there are more cables going online shortly.... and this will be good for us without a doubt... but we will still use the Seacom cable to reach them...
 
ToxicBunny said:
Yeah I know that there are more cables going online shortly.... and this will be good for us without a doubt... but we will still use the Seacom cable to reach them...
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At least EASSy will provide some redundancy for that route. I must say I was actually surprised when I read last week that Seacom uses SMW4 to connect to India and Marseilles. They always showed those landings in Seacom diagrams - so I assumed that it is part of Seacom.
 
I am loving how people are guessing what could be wrong :D.

Also weather prediction is not an exact science
 
@Gordon - Yeah I think that was because I just did that lol. Took me 25 mins.
 
killadoob said:
I am loving how people are guessing what could be wrong :D.

Also weather prediction is not an exact science
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Hey its far more interesting than people alternating between blaming mweb and seacom, complaining about the delay, complaining about people complaining, and the occasional person that pops up complaining about the poor speed while being oblivious to the larger issue.
 
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