{"id":12232,"date":"2010-04-29T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-29T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T07:36:00","slug":"seacom-nearly-back-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/12232-seacom-nearly-back-to-normal.html","title":{"rendered":"SEACOM nearly back to normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?227005-SEACOM&amp;highlight=seacom\">SEACOM<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Several SEACOM customers are already restored and we expect traffic for all SEACOM customers to be fully restored by mid-morning GMT,&rdquo; SEACOM said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?228650-SEACOM-traffic-restoration-taking-place-this-morning\"><strong>SEACOM traffic restoration<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/12208-SEACOM-still-down.html\"><strong>SEACOM still down<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/12188-SEACOM-downtime-tomorrow.html\"><strong>SEACOM downtime tomorrow<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repairs to SEA-ME-WE 4 cable successfully completed; final SEACOM traffic restoration taking place this morning (29 April 2010) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}