Liquid Telecom has released a statement explaining how it has mitigated network issues related to the WACS cable break.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo help ensure continuity of service, Liquid Telecom\u2019s network traffic is automatically rerouted during such outages,” said Liquid Telecom South Africa CEO Reshaad Sha.<\/p>\n
“We are responding to new and increased demand from customers with additional capacity across alternative routes.”<\/p>\n
Sha explained that Liquid Telecom operates a five-cable system for its international Internet capacity in South Africa.<\/p>\n
“Our resilient architecture means the loss of the WACS capacity is unlikely to impact customers\u2019 connectivity as demand surges,” said Sha.<\/p>\n
The South African Nation Research and Education Network (SANREN) issued an alert<\/strong><\/a> this weekend informing South Africans there was a break on the West Africa Cable System (WACS).<\/p>\n This compounds upon the fact that the SAT-3 cable is still down following a break on 9 March, and has resulted in many South Africans suffering slow international Internet speeds.<\/p>\n TATA is making arrangements<\/strong><\/a> for a cable repair vessel to attend to the WACS fault.<\/p>\n Afrihost has informed clients it is urgently working to secure capacity on alternative international Internet routes.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sorry about the slow international Internet: Two undersea cables, WACS and SAT-3, have suffered major breaks,\u201d Afrihost CEO Gian Visser said in communications to customers.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re working together with our suppliers to secure an alternative international path ASAP. We understand that you need your Internet now more than ever and I promise you that this is our top priority. Thanks for your patience. Stay safe.\u201d<\/p>\n Liquid Telecom has released a statement explaining how it has mitigated network issues related to the WACS cable break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":328563,"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":[28470],"tags":[3116,303,6350,307,319,20395],"class_list":["post-345425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fibre","tag-liquid-telecom","tag-sanren","tag-sat-3","tag-tenet","tag-wacs","tag-west-africa-cable-system-wacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345425"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345429,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345425\/revisions\/345429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: MetroFibre free speed upgrades explained<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"