{"id":19285,"date":"2011-03-24T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-24T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T11:53:00","slug":"seacom-down-and-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/19285-seacom-down-and-up-again.html","title":{"rendered":"SEACOM down and up again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks SEACOM downtime has become a regular event, with the cable going down twice in as many weeks because of problems on its SMW4 segment.<\/p>\n<p>SEACOM went down again today at around 13:25, causing international connectivity issues on many broadband services including Afrihost, Cybersmart and others.<\/p>\n<p>The TENET SEACOM monitoring graph clearly illustrated the downtime, but the cause of the downtime is not known yet.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB ISP MD <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226207-Derek-Hershaw\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Derek Hershaw profile\">Derek Hershaw<\/a> said that they are currently talking to SEACOM to establish the cause of the downtime and the restore time, but no details have emerged yet.<\/p>\n<p>Seacom SA GM Martin Sanne explained that there was a dip on SMW4, but that all services have been restored.&nbsp; Marin added that they are in discussions with SMW4 to establish what caused the dip in connectivity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/321475-SEACOM-is-down-yet-again\" target=\"_self\" title=\"SEACOM dead again\"><strong>SEACOM dead again<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEACOM\u2019s problems continued today with more downtime on the international cable linked to SMW4 portion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285"}],"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=19285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}