{"id":31714,"date":"2011-08-16T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T07:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31714"},"modified":"2011-08-16T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T08:11:45","slug":"seacom-downtime-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/31714-seacom-downtime-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"SEACOM downtime explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"SEACOM downtime\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/357986-Seacom-down-again\">Numerous broadband users<\/a> complained about international connectivity problems this morning, caused by problems on the SEACOM cable.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SEACOM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227005-SEACOM\">SEACOM<\/a> confirmed the problems on their Twitter account. \u201cWe can confirm that SEACOM is currently experiencing problems on their network. We will keep you updated on progress,\u201d SEACOM tweeted at 09:30 this morning (Tuesday 16 August 2011).<\/p>\n<p>According to SEACOM\u2019s <a title=\"Suveer Ramdhani\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216049-Suveer-Ramdhani\">Suveer Ramdhani<\/a> initial feedback points to a problem on the SEA-ME-WE 4 which caused downtime of around an hour on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The downtime started at around 08:30 on Tuesday, and was resolved at approximately 09:40.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SEACOM\u2019s partner network experienced a terrestrial fibre cut between Alexandria and the Suez this morning 16th August from 06:31GMT.\u00a0 All links are back up as of 07:35GMT.\u00a0 Total downtime was 1hr 4 mins,&#8221; SEACOM said in an official statement.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mweb\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226947-MWeb\">MWEB<\/a> CEO <a title=\"Rudi Jansen\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/212663-Rudi-Jansen\">Rudi Jansen<\/a> said that their business clients experienced no service interruptions because of the SEACOM downtime, and that their residential clients may have experienced some slow international connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB has automatic failover on SAT-3 in the event of SEACOM outages to minimize the impact on their subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEACOM experienced downtime this morning; SEACOM explained that the downtime was most likely caused by a problem on SEA-ME-WE 4 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":31716,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,213,557,317,2946],"class_list":["post-31714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-mweb","tag-rudi-jansen","tag-seacom","tag-suveer-ramdhani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714"}],"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=31714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31718,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31714\/revisions\/31718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}