{"id":18137,"date":"2011-01-31T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-31T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T13:51:00","slug":"seacom-outage-postponed-until-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/18137-seacom-outage-postponed-until-april.html","title":{"rendered":"SEACOM outage postponed until April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/18079-SEACOM-downtime-next-month.html\">SEACOM last week informed<\/a> their clients that maintenance on electronic equipment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306401-SEA-ME-WE-4-(SMW4)\" target=\"_self\" title=\"SEA-ME-WE (SMW4)\">SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW4)<\/a> cable, which connects <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227005-SEACOM\" target=\"_self\" title=\"SEACOM\">SEACOM<\/a> clients to London and Mumbai, will take place from 6 February and 10 February and will cause an outage to their clients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SEACOM has been advised that the SMW4 cable will undergo emergency  undersea maintenance on the segment between Alexandria (Egypt) and  Marseille (France) from 6 February 2011 to 10 February 2011 (tentative).  SEACOM&rsquo;s network uses the SMW4 cable to link from India to Europe while  it finalizes its own link through Egypt within the coming months,&#8221; the company said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>SEACOM organized backup bandwidth to its clients to London, and local ISPs like <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226947-MWeb\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MWEB\">MWEB<\/a> indicated that they were set to use this solution from SEACOM to minimize the impact on their clients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With 110 Gbps of active capacity on its network and a range of tailored  restoration plans available almost instantaneously for all of its  clients, SEACOM is able to provide uninterrupted service during  occurrences of connectivity issues,&#8221; SEACOM said.<\/p>\n<p>However, SEACOM said today that the SMW4 planned event scheduled for 6th-10th February 2011 has been postponed by the SMW4 management consortium until at least April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this postponement has not been communicated by SEACOM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307115-SEACOM-scheduled-outage-postponed-until-April\" target=\"_self\" title=\"SEACOM outage postponed until April\"><strong>SEACOM outage postponed until April<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEACOM has moved its planned downtime from February to April 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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-18137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}