{"id":44263,"date":"2012-02-26T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=44263"},"modified":"2012-02-27T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T11:47:09","slug":"triple-whammy-hits-eassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/44263-triple-whammy-hits-eassy.html","title":{"rendered":"Triple whammy hits EASSy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"EASSy\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/216377-EASSy\">EASSy\u2019s<\/a> problems are continuing with three cable breaks affecting connectivity to the cable system\u2019s clients.<\/p>\n<p>Industry feedback confirms that cable breaks occurred on the East Africa Submarine System (EASSy), SEA-ME-WE 3 (SMW3) and the Europe India Gateway (EIG). These cable breaks all occurred in the Gulf of Aden on 17th February 2012.<\/p>\n<p>According to a well placed industry source the breaks may have been caused by a cargo ship that dragged its anchor over the area where all these cables lie on the seabed.<\/p>\n<p>The repair operation is already under way, and further details about the cable breaks are expected to become available during this process.<\/p>\n<p>This triple cable break is affecting over 100 telecoms operators in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe that rely on these cable systems for international connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The impact on South African telecoms operators is however limited by the redundancy in place from alternative cable systems <a title=\"SEACOM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227005-SEACOM\">SEACOM<\/a>, <a title=\"SAT-3\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306407-SAT-3-WASC\">SAT-3<\/a> and <a title=\"SAT3\/SAFE\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306409-SAFE\">SAFE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EASSy downtime continues\" href=\"..\/telecoms\/43879-eassy-downtime-continues.html\"><strong>EASSy downtime continues<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple cable break hurts international connectivity on EASSy, SMW3 and EIG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[321,35,317,9043],"class_list":["post-44263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-eassy","tag-headline","tag-seacom","tag-smw3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44263"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44343,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44263\/revisions\/44343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}