SEACOM nearly back to normal
SEACOM last week said that it experienced a brief interruption in its network on 14 April 2010 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, was initially scheduled to undergo repairs on Saturday 24 April 2010 to fix the affected fibre pair in the Mediterranean Sea.
The actual repair work on the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable only began on Sunday 25 April 2010 resulting in the SEACOM service experiencing interruptions from around mid-day on Sunday.
Good news is that the repair work on the SEA-ME-WE 4 cable was completed successfully overnight and all customers, including SEACOM, are being migrated and reconfigured by SEA-ME-WE 4 this morning.
“Several SEACOM customers are already restored and we expect traffic for all SEACOM customers to be fully restored by mid-morning GMT,” SEACOM said.
SEACOM added that it is now actively engaging in the completion of alternative system in the Mediterranean Sea that will minimize drastically the impact of such fault in the future.
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