SEACOM explains prolonged problems

Garyvdh said:
That's not entirely true. EASSY will also connect to several other cable systems... eg. EIG...

http://www.egovonline.net/news/news-details.asp?newsid=15987

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php/photo/11186
http://europeindiagateway.com/1.html
http://www.communicationstoday.co.in/news/seamless-interconnection-915-92.html
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Thanks for the heads-up, and that does make a lot of sense.

I couldn't find references on the EASSy page, since the link for 'onward connectivity' does not exist!

The I-ME-WE cable (2009) runs along the same route, but lands at Suez:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-ME-WE

One can only speculate as to why Seacom didn't try to partner with them (if the IMEWE fibre is operational?)

Edit: Just found an interesting article stating that 5 new Middle East cables are due to come online (just too late for this break!?) There is a nice chart showing the cumulative capcity, including TE North and IMEWE (May 2010), EIG (late-2010), etc:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...cable-fault-cripples-middle-east-internet.ars

Edit2: Another article listing the new cables (and some history), with a brief desciption of the limited redundancy (costs) of existing cables:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100426_worlds_critical_infrastructure/
 
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evilstebunny said:
Oh noes .. you sucked the pipe dry!

Damn you serial downloaders!! .. HARRRR .. you guzzlers! HARRR .. na ye left nuttin' for the rest of us!! <- pirates of the caribbean voice
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Nope, sorry - just cable damage. :confused:
 
Can't get to any international sites this morning. There go my plans for the public holiday!

Oh wait, it's up now. *whew*
 
flarkit said:
Can't get to any international sites this morning. There go my plans for the public holiday!

Oh wait, it's up now. *whew*
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why does your post (above mine ) says 8:10 am its only 7:34?
oh and my international is not working.
It worked until about about 7:20. Then died all together.


EDIT: Duh MyBB time not working.
 
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So on the 14th of April, they had a 7 minute outage (??), and to resolve it they need to bring the connection down for 5 days(??????), lets hope they never get an hour outage, we might not see a connection that year
 
arg and I need to vpn :( stupid seacom :) Its pretty much the same as neotels network, one cable break and the whole system is down
 
Round the world

Just did a trace route to www.bbc.co.uk. I am pretty sure going through Tokyo and New Jersery is bit out of the way :) :

traceroute to www.bbc.net.uk (212.58.246.160), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 1.482 ms 1.007 ms 1.001 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 41.174.0.1 (41.174.0.1) 45.763 ms 59.128 ms 48.970 ms
5 41.160.0.242 (41.160.0.242) 50.048 ms 48.128 ms 47.985 ms
6 if-1-5.bb1.jso-johannesburg.as6453.net (216.6.55.49) 52.039 ms 80.890 ms 229.971 ms
7 if-4-2-0.core1.mlv-mumbai.as6453.net (209.58.105.161) 187.165 ms 156.425 ms 166.530 ms
8 if-15-1-0.core2.cfo-chennai.as6453.net (116.0.84.45) 191.271 ms 212.950 ms 219.967 ms
9 if-4-0-0.core2.s9r-singapore.as6453.net (116.0.84.22) 626.073 ms 341.296 ms 220.959 ms
10 if-10-0-0-997.core1.tv2-tokyo.as6453.net (209.58.96.114) 367.015 ms 458.382 ms 369.949 ms
11 if-12-0-0.mcore4.pdi-paloalto.as6453.net (216.6.86.25) 499.058 ms 476.421 ms 479.936 ms
12 if-0-0-0-892.mcore3.njy-newark.as6453.net (209.58.124.25) 677.048 ms 707.371 ms 668.947 ms
13 if-4-0-0.core1.fv0-frankfurt.as6453.net (195.219.69.29) 762.045 ms * 775.264 ms
14 if-9-1.har1.fr1-frankfurt.as6453.net (195.219.68.5) 764.982 ms 767.222 ms 771.988 ms
15 * rt-decix.fft.bbc.co.uk (80.81.192.59) 768.973 ms 769.912 ms
16 ntl-ge2-8.prt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.239.217) 780.023 ms
 
Gordon_R said:
I had that on Sunday with Mweb. (What ISP is 41.174?).
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OrgName: African Network Information Center
OrgID: AFRINIC
Address: 03B3 - 3rd Floor - Ebene Cyber Tower
Address: Cyber City
Address: Ebene
Address: Mauritius
City: Ebene
StateProv:
PostalCode: 0001
Country: MU

Sorry the above is incorrect:

Correction: It's a Neotel IP
 
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Gordon_R said:
I had that on Sunday with Mweb. (What ISP is 41.174?).
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P0is3nIvy said:
OrgID: AFRINIC
Address: 03B3 - 3rd Floor - Ebene Cyber Tower
Address: Cyber City
Address: Ebene
Address: Mauritius
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Ha-ha. So we have somebody from Mauritius on the forum (not clear from his signature). I meant what South African ISP, but that also makes sense too.

Edit: I posted a tracert on Sunday with 29 hops, going round the entire Northern Hemisphere. Beat that ;-)
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...pected-over-the-weekend&p=3843633#post3843633
Just listing the major cities en-route is a mission: Mumbai, Chennai, Singapore, LosAngeles, Washington, Frankfurt, etc!

Edit2: I was too lazy to look up the IP address. (BTW: 41.XX is a huge address space, I specified 41.174.XX)
 
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james_turton said:
If I were in Mauritius it would be 28 degrees right now and not the 11 that I am currently experiencing in Jhb :) !

Yeah, ok, you win!
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The reason I asked is that MWeb were using AS6453 (Tata communications) for routing to several sites on Sunday, and it was working quite well (long latency, but not congested).

With the extended downtime they have now allocated that 'pipe' to higher priority users, and none of my traffic goes that route anymore...

I still don't know what 'fibre' that route is on, since the landing stations don't correspond (AFAIK) to SAFE or SEACOM?

Edit: Total speculation, but SAFE has a branch in Kochi (India) that meets SEA-ME-WE 3, which leads on to Mumbai. (This would be a 'virtual circuit', with the individual hops not shown.)
Code: 
   6    33 ms    33 ms    33 ms  tengig-0-2-0-0.mid-1.mweb.co.za [196.22.169.219]
   7   151 ms   151 ms   152 ms  if-11-1-1.core2.MLV-Mumbai.as6453.net [216.6.13.141]
 
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Seacom outage.

I know for a fact that there is absolutely F-all wrong with the seacom cable. All the ISP have all of a sudden realised that their uncapped offerings are unsustainable, so they dream up a SEACOM outage problem to give them an excuse to start "capping".

SEACOM have not had any problem since it went live and now all of a sudden they have maintenance that is going to last until - hey guess what - the end of the f@cking month.

Mark my words. Every month round about this time there is going to be some or other issue.....
 
Ya, like the last 4 days are going to make a diff to how much everyone can DL in a month.... Err, dont you think they would try this if we were paying per gig and were tying to use all of it up before the end of the month?

These ISP's must also own the seacom page, to fake the updates, hehehe
 
boerseun said:
I know for a fact that there is absolutely F-all wrong with the seacom cable. All the ISP have all of a sudden realised that their uncapped offerings are unsustainable, so they dream up a SEACOM outage problem to give them an excuse to start "capping".
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I don't think boerseun has the foggiest what he's talking about.

P.S. The problem is not claimed to be with SEACOM, but with the Mediterranean cable they connect with.
 
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