SEACOM cable hit by outage

[MagicDude4Eva]

Anyone running FTTB and is affected by that - could you perhaps mention who the FTTB provider is (other than the obvious being Seacom)?

 

[Drifter]

BAU for me on Vox.

 

[Kloofvreter]

you can add this.

*Our repair vessel is being mobilized and a tentative plan of work will be available soon. As this is a subsea outage, expected down time is 3 to 6 weeks.*

That's the same time-frame Telkom gives you when applying for a land line

 

[Dave Walker]

Today's notice on MWEB homepage.

International Outage

Update @ 10:00am on Wednesday 12th April. No change to yesterday’s update. SEACOM are indicating that it could take between 3-6 weeks to repair the cable break. We're in discussions with a number of operators to secure more international bandwidth on alternative cable systems to cover any shortfall during peak times.

 

[ponder]

This cable probably holds the record for outages. Would be nice to have a list of ISPs that use them.

 

[Sl8er]

This cable probably holds the record for outages. Would be nice to have a list of ISPs that use them.

This is what I want to know as well.

 

[Geoff.D]

DSTV streaming affected by this? It hasn't been great for a while...

Surely DSTV has local servers.

DSTV make use of backup servers located overseas. so there is a possibility that it will affect DSTV services as well.
It depends on how DSTV has its network configured and what is provided and stored where.

Update: 2017-04-13: 15:00

Confirmed. No direct impact on DSTV services by the Seacom failure. This should only affect streaming services IF your ISP somehow is affected by the outage

 

[HitmanV]

im hearing reports of many LTE sme's loosing all connectivity to office.com (bad for business)