SEACOM’s repair vessel has arrived at the second marine fault on its cable in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0fault was identified while it was fixing a separate fault on the cable – off the coast\u00a0of Djibouti – which\u00a0caused an outage in April<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The second fault is north of the first one.<\/p>\n The\u00a0planned service-affecting repair was\u00a0scheduled to take place from 19 to 22 May, and started yesterday as planned.<\/p>\n “Given that the nature of the fault issue is not known until the cable has been retrieved and inspected, SEACOM can only estimate repair timelines,” it\u00a0said.<\/p>\n “We estimate the SEACOM subsea cable could be down for three days during this repair window.”<\/p>\n It said the\u00a0impact of the repair process will affect all linear transmission traffic on the east coast of Africa to and from Europe.<\/p>\n \u201cCustomers with IP or other managed network services will remain unaffected, but could experience higher latencies as traffic will predominantly be routed over SEACOM\u2019s transmission links on the west coast of Africa, as well as on SEACOM\u2019s network to Asia gateways.\u201d<\/p>\n SEACOM’s repair vessel has arrived at the second marine fault on its cable in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":171875,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1217,317],"class_list":["post-211566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-cable-break","tag-seacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211566"}],"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=211566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211570,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211566\/revisions\/211570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0What the SEACOM cable break looked like<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"